Estimation of Time-Varying Treatment Effects on Clustered Outcome Subject to Interference
Marginal structural models (MSMs) are a class of causal models useful for characterizing the effect of treatment in the presence of time-varying confounding. We extend MSMs to situations with clustered observations with unit- and cluster-level treatment and introduce an appropriate inferential method. We consider how to formulate models with cluster-level and unit-level treatments. For unit-level treatments, we consider cases with and without interference. We also consider the use of unit-specific inverse probability weights (IPWs) and certain working correlation structures to improve the efficiency of estimators in some situations. We apply our method to different scenarios including 2 or 3 units per cluster and a mixture of larger clusters. Simulation examples and data from the treatment arm of a glaucoma clinical trial were used to illustrate our approach.
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