109 research outputs found
CATE Lasso: Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation with High-Dimensional Linear Regression
In causal inference about two treatments, Conditional Average Treatment
Effects (CATEs) play an important role as a quantity representing an
individualized causal effect, defined as a difference between the expected
outcomes of the two treatments conditioned on covariates. This study assumes
two linear regression models between a potential outcome and covariates of the
two treatments and defines CATEs as a difference between the linear regression
models. Then, we propose a method for consistently estimating CATEs even under
high-dimensional and non-sparse parameters. In our study, we demonstrate that
desirable theoretical properties, such as consistency, remain attainable even
without assuming sparsity explicitly if we assume a weaker assumption called
implicit sparsity originating from the definition of CATEs. In this assumption,
we suppose that parameters of linear models in potential outcomes can be
divided into treatment-specific and common parameters, where the
treatment-specific parameters take difference values between each linear
regression model, while the common parameters remain identical. Thus, in a
difference between two linear regression models, the common parameters
disappear, leaving only differences in the treatment-specific parameters.
Consequently, the non-zero parameters in CATEs correspond to the differences in
the treatment-specific parameters. Leveraging this assumption, we develop a
Lasso regression method specialized for CATE estimation and present that the
estimator is consistent. Finally, we confirm the soundness of the proposed
method by simulation studies
Synthetic Control Methods by Density Matching under Implicit Endogeneity
Synthetic control methods (SCMs) have become a crucial tool for causal
inference in comparative case studies. The fundamental idea of SCMs is to
estimate counterfactual outcomes for a treated unit by using a weighted sum of
observed outcomes from untreated units. The accuracy of the synthetic control
(SC) is critical for estimating the causal effect, and hence, the estimation of
SC weights has been the focus of much research. In this paper, we first point
out that existing SCMs suffer from an implicit endogeneity problem, which is
the correlation between the outcomes of untreated units and the error term in
the model of a counterfactual outcome. We show that this problem yields a bias
in the causal effect estimator. We then propose a novel SCM based on density
matching, assuming that the density of outcomes of the treated unit can be
approximated by a weighted average of the densities of untreated units (i.e., a
mixture model). Based on this assumption, we estimate SC weights by matching
moments of treated outcomes and the weighted sum of moments of untreated
outcomes. Our proposed method has three advantages over existing methods.
First, our estimator is asymptotically unbiased under the assumption of the
mixture model. Second, due to the asymptotic unbiasedness, we can reduce the
mean squared error for counterfactual prediction. Third, our method generates
full densities of the treatment effect, not only expected values, which
broadens the applicability of SCMs. We provide experimental results to
demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method
2,7-Bis(4-acetylphenoxy)naphthalene
The title compound, C26H20O4, has an asymmetrical conformation at 193 K. The 4-acetylphenyl groups are twisted away from the the naphthalene ring system, with one benzene ring turned towards the 1-position of the naphthalene ring and the other benzene ring turned towards the 6-position. The interplanar angles between the mean planes of the benzene rings and the naphthalene ring system are 68.71 (6) and 74.01 (6)°. The structure displays C—H⋯O hydrogen bonding and π–π stacking interactions [centroid–centroid and interplanar distances are 3.5938 (9) and 3.517 Å, respectively]
Adenomyoepithelioma of the Breast A with an Immunohistochemical Study
Adenomyoepithelioma is a rare primary tumor of the breast in women. It is characterized by a bicellular pattern consisting of both ductal and myoepithelial elements. We report here an additional case of adenomyoepithelioma in a 57-year-old woman. The aspiration cytology revealed atypical cell clusters, and the simple mastectomy was performed under the diagnosis of ductal carcinoma. Macroscopically, the tumor presented as a well-defined mass. Histologically, the tumor demonstrated the characteristic bicellular growth pattern consisting of ducts and a periductal proliferation of mainly polygonal neoplastic cells. Immunohistochemically, epithelial cells lining the glandular structures were strongly positive for cytokeratin and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA). Polygonal myoepithelial cells gave negative reactions with cytokeratin and EMA. Most polygonal myoepithelial cells were positive for ホア-smooth muscle actin (SMA) and S-100 protein. Our case was a representative example of a typical adenomyoepithelioma, but the cytological diagnosis needs a deep attention to avoid overdiagnosis
2-(4-Chlorobenzoyl)-3,6-dimethoxynaphthalene
In the title compound, C19H15ClO3, the interplanar angle between the naphthalene and benzene ring systems is 62.67 (6)°. The carbonyl group is twisted from both ring planes, with torsion angles of −44.9 (2)° with respect to the naphthalene ring and −26.7 (2)° with respect to the phenylene ring. There is an intermolecular hydrogen bond between an H atom of one methoxy group and the O atom of the second methoxy group, forming chains along the ac diagonal
Small Molecules with Similar Structures Exhibit Agonist, Neutral Antagonist or Inverse Agonist Activity toward Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor
Small differences in the chemical structures of ligands can be responsible for agonism, neutral antagonism or inverse agonism toward a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). Although each ligand may stabilize the receptor conformation in a different way, little is known about the precise conformational differences. We synthesized the angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker (ARB) olmesartan, R239470 and R794847, which induced inverse agonism, antagonism and agonism, respectively, and then investigated the ligand-specific changes in the receptor conformation with respect to stabilization around transmembrane (TM)3. The results of substituted cysteine accessibility mapping studies support the novel concept that ligand-induced changes in the conformation of TM3 play a role in stabilizing GPCR. Although the agonist-, neutral antagonist and inverse agonist-binding sites in the AT1 receptor are similar, each ligand induced specific conformational changes in TM3. In addition, all of the experimental data were obtained with functional receptors in a native membrane environment (in situ)
Optimal Best Arm Identification in Two-Armed Bandits with a Fixed Budget under a Small Gap
We consider fixed-budget best arm identification in two-armed bandit
problems. One of the longstanding open questions is a tight lower bound on the
probability of misidentifying the best arm and a strategy whose upper bound
matches the lower bound when the optimal target allocation ratio of arm draws
is unknown. We address this problem when the gap between the expected rewards
is small. First, we introduce a distribution-dependent lower bound. Then, we
propose the ``RS-AIPW'' strategy, which consists of the random sampling (RS)
rule using the estimated optimal target allocation ratio and the recommendation
rule using the augmented inverse probability weighting (AIPW) estimator. Our
proposed strategy is optimal in the sense that the upper bound achieves the
lower bound when the budget goes to infinity and the gap goes to zero. In the
course of the analysis, we present a novel large deviation bound for
martingales
Adenomyoepithelioma of the Breast A with an Immunohistochemical Study
Adenomyoepithelioma is a rare primary tumor of the breast in women. It is characterized by a bicellular pattern consisting of both ductal and myoepithelial elements. We report here an additional case of adenomyoepithelioma in a 57-year-old woman. The aspiration cytology revealed atypical cell clusters, and the simple mastectomy was performed under the diagnosis of ductal carcinoma. Macroscopically, the tumor presented as a well-defined mass. Histologically, the tumor demonstrated the characteristic bicellular growth pattern consisting of ducts and a periductal proliferation of mainly polygonal neoplastic cells. Immunohistochemically, epithelial cells lining the glandular structures were strongly positive for cytokeratin and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA). Polygonal myoepithelial cells gave negative reactions with cytokeratin and EMA. Most polygonal myoepithelial cells were positive for ホア-smooth muscle actin (SMA) and S-100 protein. Our case was a representative example of a typical adenomyoepithelioma, but the cytological diagnosis needs a deep attention to avoid overdiagnosis
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