Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete-Data Perspectives

Preface. I Casual inference and observational studies. 1 An overview of methods for causal inference from observational studies, by Sander Greenland. 2 Matching in observational studies, by Paul R. Rosenbaum. 3 Estimating causal effects in nonexperimental studies, by Rajeev Dehejia. 4 Medication cost sharing and drug spending in Medicare, by Alyce S. Adams. 5 A comparison of experimental and observational data analyses, by Jennifer L. Hill, Jerome P. Reiter, and Elaine L. Zanutto. 6 Fixing broken experiments using the propensity score, by Bruce Sacerdote. 7 The propensity score with continuous treatments, by Keisuke Hirano and Guido W. Imbens. 8 Causal inference with instrumental variables, by Junni L. Zhang. 9 Principal stratification, by Constantine E. Frangakis. II Missing data modeling. 10 Nonresponse adjustment in government statistical agencies: constraints, inferential goals, and robustness issues, by John L. Eltinge. 11 Bridging across changes in classification systems, by Nathaniel Schenker. 12 Representing the Census undercount by multiple imputation of households, by Alan M. Zaslavsky. 13 Statistical disclosure techniques based on multiple imputation, by Roderick J. A. Little, Fang Liu, and Trivellore E. Raghunathan. 14 Designs producing balanced missing data: examples from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, by Neal Thomas. 15 Propensity score estimation with missing data, by Ralph B. D'Agostino Jr. 16 Sensitivity to nonignorability in frequentist inference, by Guoguang Ma and Daniel F. Heitjan. III Statistical modeling and computation. 17 Statistical modeling and computation, by D. Michael Titterington. 18 Treatment effects in before-after data, by Andrew Gelman. 19 Multimodality in mixture models and factor models, by Eric Loken. 20 Modeling the covariance and correlation matrix of repeated measures, by W. John Boscardin and Xiao Zhang. 21 Robit regression: a simple robust alternative to logistic and probit regression, by Chuanhai Liu. 22 Using EM and data augmentation for the competing risks model, by Radu V. Craiu and Thierry Duchesne. 23 Mixed effects models and the EM algorithm, by Florin Vaida, Xiao-Li Meng, and Ronghui Xu. 24 The sampling/importance resampling algorithm, by Kim-Hung Li. IV Applied Bayesian inference. 25 Whither applied Bayesian inference?, by Bradley P. Carlin. 26 Efficient EM-type algorithms for fitting spectral lines in high-energy astrophysics, by David A. van Dyk and Taeyoung Park. 27 Improved predictions of lynx trappings using a biological model, by Cavan Reilly and Angelique Zeringue. 28 Record linkage using finite mixture models, by Michael D. Larsen. 29 Identifying likely duplicates by record linkage in a survey of prostitutes, by Thomas R. Belin, Hemant Ishwaran, Naihua Duan, Sandra H. Berry, and David E. Kanouse. 30 Applying structural equation models with incomplete data, by Hal S. Stern and Yoonsook Jeon. 31 Perceptual scaling, by Ying Nian Wu, Cheng-En Guo, and Song Chun Zhu. References. Index.