
Causal inference with interference is a rapidly growing area. The literature has begun to relax the "no-interference" assumption that the treatment received by one individual does not affect the outcomes of other individuals. In this paper we briefly review the literature on causal inference in the presence of interference when treatments have been randomized. We then consider settings in which causal effects in the presence of interference are not identified, either because randomization alone does not suffice for identification or because treatment is not randomized and there may be unmeasured confounders of the treatment-outcome relationship. We develop sensitivity analysis techniques for these settings. We describe several sensitivity analysis techniques for the infectiousness effect which, in a vaccine trial, captures the effect of the vaccine of one person on protecting a second person from infection even if the first is infected. We also develop two sensitivity analysis techniques for causal effects under interference in the presence of unmeasured confounding which generalize analogous techniques when interference is absent. These two techniques for unmeasured confounding are compared and contrasted.
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-STS479 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
stable unit treatment value assumption, FOS: Computer and information sciences, 330, vaccine trial, interference, 610, infectiousness effect, Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis, Methodology (stat.ME), Data analysis (statistics), sensitivity analysis, spillover effect, causal inference, Statistics - Methodology, Causal inference
stable unit treatment value assumption, FOS: Computer and information sciences, 330, vaccine trial, interference, 610, infectiousness effect, Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis, Methodology (stat.ME), Data analysis (statistics), sensitivity analysis, spillover effect, causal inference, Statistics - Methodology, Causal inference
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