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arXiv 2003.06723stat.ME
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在线性模型中测试仪器强度后推断处理效应

Inferring Treatment Effects After Testing Instrument Strength in Linear Models

Nan Bi, Hyunseung Kang, Jonathan Taylor

摘要:

IV研究中的常见做法是检查仪器强度,即其与治疗的相关性,使用回归的F检验。如果F统计量高于某个阈值(通常为10),则认为该仪器满足三个核心IV假设之一,并用于检验处理效应。然而,在许多情况下,对处理效应的推断没有考虑到先验进行的强度测试。在本文中,我们表明,不考虑这种预检验会严重扭曲分布的检验统计量,并提出了一种方法来纠正这种扭曲,产生有效的推断。在我们的方法中,一个关键的见解是将F-检验作为一个随机凸优化问题,并利用最近的方法进行选择性推理。我们证明,我们的方法提供了条件和边际第一类错误控制。我们还将我们的方法扩展到弱仪器设置。最后,我们重新分析了教育对收入的影响的研究,我们表明,不考虑预测试可以大大改变原来的结论教育的影响。

英文摘要:

A common practice in IV studies is to check for instrument strength, i.e. its association to the treatment, with an F-test from regression. If the F-statistic is above some threshold, usually 10, the instrument is deemed to satisfy one of the three core IV assumptions and used to test for the treatment effect. However, in many cases, the inference on the treatment effect does not take into account the strength test done a priori. In this paper, we show that not accounting for this pretest can severely distort the distribution of the test statistic and propose a method to correct this distortion, producing valid inference. A key insight in our method is to frame the F-test as a randomized convex optimization problem and to leverage recent methods in selective inference. We prove that our method provides conditional and marginal Type I error control. We also extend our method to weak instrument settings. We conclude with a reanalysis of studies concerning the effect of education on earning where we show that not accounting for pre-testing can dramatically alter the original conclusion about education's effects.

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