A general approach to evaluating the bias of 2-stage instrumental variable estimators.

Abstract:

:Unmeasured confounding is a common concern when researchers attempt to estimate a treatment effect using observational data or randomized studies with nonperfect compliance. To address this concern, instrumental variable methods, such as 2-stage predictor substitution (2SPS) and 2-stage residual inclusion (2SRI), have been widely adopted. In many clinical studies of binary and survival outcomes, 2SRI has been accepted as the method of choice over 2SPS, but a compelling theoretical rationale has not been postulated. We evaluate the bias and consistency in estimating the conditional treatment effect for both 2SPS and 2SRI when the outcome is binary, count, or time to event. We demonstrate analytically that the bias in 2SPS and 2SRI estimators can be reframed to mirror the problem of omitted variables in nonlinear models and that there is a direct relationship with the collapsibility of effect measures. In contrast to conclusions made by previous studies (Terza et al, 2008), we demonstrate that the consistency of 2SRI estimators only holds under the following conditions: (1) when the null hypothesis is true; (2) when the outcome model is collapsible; or (3) when estimating the nonnull causal effect from Cox or logistic regression models, the strong and unrealistic assumption that the effect of the unmeasured covariates on the treatment is proportional to their effect on the outcome needs to hold. We propose a novel dissimilarity metric to provide an intuitive explanation of the bias of 2SRI estimators in noncollapsible models and demonstrate that with increasing dissimilarity between the effects of the unmeasured covariates on the treatment versus outcome, the bias of 2SRI increases in magnitude.

journal_name

Stat Med

journal_title

Statistics in medicine

authors

Wan F,Small D,Mitra N

doi

10.1002/sim.7636

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-05-30 00:00:00

pages

1997-2015

issue

12

eissn

0277-6715

issn

1097-0258

journal_volume

37

pub_type

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