Discussion of “Dynamic treatment regimes: Technical challenges and applications”

• Autores: Robins, James; Rotnitzky, Andrea Gloria
• Año de publicación: 2014
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Irregular Confidence Intervals; Dynamic Treatment Regimes
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

We thank the editor for organizing this discussion of the article by Laber et al. (2014) (throughout referred to as LLQPM). The authors offer an elegant solution to the inferential problem caused by nonregularity. Our discussion will to a large extent focus on conceptual rather than technical issues, in part because the authors handled the technical matters so decisively and well. In so doing, we recognize that discussion of conceptual issues was not the authors’ goal and that the authors have written elsewhere about many of the issues we raise. Indeed, in our own writing, we have often either ignored the issues we raise or were unable to offer coherent solutions to them. We hope our discussion makes for an interesting and lively interchange.
Fil: Robins, James. Harvard University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Rotnitzky, Andrea Gloria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Departamento de Economía; Argentina