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Query: Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects with Outcomes Truncated
  by Death   It is common in medical studies that the outcome of interest is truncated by
death, meaning that a subject has died before the outcome could be measured. In
this case, restricted analysis among survivors may be subject to selection
bias. Hence, it is of interest to estimate the survivor average causal effect,
defined as the average causal effect among the subgroup consisting of subjects
who would survive under either exposure. In this paper, we consider the
identification and estimation problems of the survivor average causal effect.
We propose to use a substitution variable in place of the latent membership in
the always-survivor group. The identification conditions required for a
substitution variable are conceptually similar to conditions for a conditional
instrumental variable, and may apply to both randomized and observational
studies. We show that the survivor average causal effect is identifiable with
use of such a substitution variable, and propose novel model parameterizations
for estimation of the survivor average causal effect under our identification
assumptions. Our approaches are illustrated via simulation studies and a data
analysis.

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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat