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Causal Inference for Functional Treatments with Stochastic Policies

Martha Barnard , Jared D. Huling , Julian Wolfson This is my paper

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Stochastic policies for functional treatments allow estimation of causal effects by modifying distributions through a single basis function without positivity assumptions.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper addresses challenges in causal inference when treatments are functions over time, such as physical activity patterns measured by wearables. It proposes stochastic policies that change the treatment distribution to estimate effects on outcomes like mortality, avoiding the need for positivity. The key innovation is a method that modifies the treatment using one analyst-chosen basis function to manage temporal confounding. Estimators are proven to be asymptotically normal and exhibit rate double robustness. An application to survey data shows the effect of increasing physical activity.

Core claim

Stochastic policies for functional treatments allow estimation of causal effects of changing the treatment distribution without requiring a positivity assumption. The method modifies the treatment through a single basis function chosen by the analyst, allowing clear control over treatment modification and temporal confounding feedback. The estimators show asymptotic normality and rate double robustness.

What carries the argument

Stochastic policies that modify the functional treatment distribution via a single analyst-chosen basis function to control confounding feedback.

If this is right

  • Causal effects of policies for functional treatments like physical activity can be estimated.
  • Estimators achieve asymptotic normality.
  • Rate double robustness holds for the estimators.
  • The approach provides control over temporal confounding in continuous time.
  • Application to NHANES data reveals effects on mortality.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The framework could apply to other continuous-time functional data in health or other fields.
  • It might enable estimation in settings where strict positivity is unrealistic for real policies.
  • Extensions could involve multiple basis functions if the single one proves limiting.

Load-bearing premise

Modifying the treatment distribution through a single analyst-chosen basis function sufficiently controls temporal confounding feedback and produces a scientifically meaningful estimand for real-world policies.

What would settle it

Empirical evidence that the single basis function modification does not adequately address temporal confounding, or that the estimators lack the claimed double robustness in finite samples.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.27518 by Jared D. Huling, Julian Wolfson, Martha Barnard.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: An illustrative example of stochastic policies for functional treatments. The left panel shows three observed physical activity function over 24-hours, where the red dotted line shows the time period for policy implementation (ie., [t1, t2]). The middle panel shows the observed function (black) and the expected value and 95% bounds of the observed conditional distribution of treatment over [t1, t2] (gray).… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: A single physical activity trajectory from NHANES and the corresponding policy basis, stochastic policy distribution, and expected functions under three stochastic policies. 4 Estimation We propose the following plug-in estimator of the augmented estimand identification presented in Theorem 2: µˆ Q˜(δ) J = 1 n Xn i=1 qˆ˜δ(B (2) 1,i |Xi , A−Q˜ J,i (·)) ˆf(B (2) 1,i |Xi , A−Q˜ J,i (·)) {Yi − Z B (2) 1 mˆ  X… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Estimator log(RMSE), the ratio of the average variance estimate and empirical estimator variance, and coverage for µˆ Q(δ) J(n) by sample size and δ. Dashed lines indicate the desired or nominal values for the right two panels. For lower δ values and J3 = 2, the absolute percent bias of µˆ Q(δ) J(n) tends to be low (< 1.5%), the asymptotic variance tends to be estimated well, and coverage is at the nominal… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Estimator absolute percent bias, average variance estimate, and coverage by J3 and δ for σ = 10, J1 = 2, and 99% of variance explained by the FPCA approximation for µˆ Q(δ) J(n) . The dotted line in the middle panel is the empirical estimator variance and the dashed line in the right panel is the nominal coverage level. When assumption A3 ∗ holds, µˆ Q∗(δ) J(n) has similar performance to µˆ Q(δ) J(n) acros… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Treatment effect estimates and 95% confidence bounds for the effect of stochastic policies that define increases in physical activity on 5-year all-cause mortality. The columns indicate the time period the policy is implemented over and the horizontal axis is δ for the top panel and the median expected step count increase under the policy for the bottom panel. These results do not align with the SoFR basis… view at source ↗
Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Estimator log(RMSE), the ratio of the average variance estimate and empirical estimator variance, and coverage for τˆ Q(δ) J(n) by sample size and δ. Dashed lines indicate the desired or nominal values for the right two panels. coefficient is closer to zero. To relate choices of δ to changes in physical activity, we compute the expected increase in MIMS over the corresponding time period by individual for … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Estimator absolute percent bias, average variance estimate, and coverage by J3 and δ for σ = 10, J1 = 8, and 99% of variance explained by the FPCA approximation for µˆ Q(δ) J(n) . The dotted line in the middle panel is the empirical estimator variance and the dashed line in the right panel is the nominal coverage level [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p053_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Estimator absolute percent bias, average variance estimate, and coverage by J3 and δ for σ = 10, J1 = 2, and 99.9% of variance explained by the FPCA approximation for µˆ Q(δ) J(n) . The dotted line in the middle panel is the empirical estimator variance and the dashed line in the right panel is the nominal coverage level. 53 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p053_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Estimator absolute percent bias, average variance estimate, and coverage by J3 and δ for σ = 12, J1 = 2, and 99% of variance explained by the FPCA approximation for µˆ Q(δ) J(n) . The dotted line in the middle panel is the empirical estimator variance and the dashed line in the right panel is the nominal coverage level [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p054_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Estimator absolute percent bias, average variance estimate, and coverage by J3 and δ for σ = 10, J1 = 2, and 99% of variance explained by the FPCA approximation for τˆ Q(δ) J(n) . The dotted line in the middle panel is the empirical estimator variance and the dashed line in the right panel is the nominal coverage level. 54 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p054_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Estimator absolute percent bias, average variance estimate, and coverage by J3 and δ for σ = 10, J1 = 2, and 99% of variance explained by the FPCA approximation for µˆ Q∗ (δ) J(n) . The dotted line in the middle panel is the empirical estimator variance and the dashed line in the right panel is the nominal coverage level [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p055_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Estimator absolute percent bias, average variance estimate, and coverage by the standard deviation (SD) of distribution of A (3) 1 and δ when assumption A3 ∗ does not hold for µˆ Q∗ (δ) J(n) . Smaller SD indicates the function over [0, t1) is a stronger predictor of A (3) 1 . The dotted line in the middle panel is the empirical estimator variance and the dashed line in the right panel is the nominal covera… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: The estimated scalar-on-function regression coefficient associated with minute-level physical activity measured in MIMS. The exponentiated coefficient is the odds ratio of 5-year all-cause mortality for a one-unit increase in physical activity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p056_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Treatment effect estimates and 95% confidence bounds for the effect of stochastic policies that define increases in physical activity on 5-year all-cause mortality for the NHANES data. The columns indicate the time period the policy is implemented over. Zipunnikov, V., Urbanek, J. K., and Crainiceanu, C. (2019). Organizing and analyzing the activity data in NHANES. Statistics in biosciences, 11(2):262–287.… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Distribution of the step count increase under the expected value of the stochastic policy for δ = 0.020 by age and mobility status for the NHANES data. 57 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p057_10.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Wearable devices can accurately measure human behavior, providing a unique opportunity to understand how behavior impacts health. Recent studies leveraging functional regression methods have found a strong relationship between accelerometer-collected physical activity and mortality. However, to determine if physical activity patterns impact mortality it is necessary to understand the causal effects of policies for physical activity, i.e., a function-valued treatment. Functional treatments present several challenges for causal effect estimation: 1) defining a scientifically meaningful estimand that reflects real-world policies and satisfies positivity is nontrivial; and 2) the potential for temporal confounding over continuous time. To address these, we propose stochastic policies for functional treatments that allow estimation of causal effects of changing the treatment distribution without requiring a positivity assumption. We develop a novel method for such that modifies the treatment through a single basis function chosen by the analyst, allowing for clear control over treatment modification and temporal confounding feedback. We show asymptotic normality of our estimators and that they exhibit rate double robustness. We apply our methods to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to determine the causal effect of increasing physical activity over three-hour periods on mortality.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes stochastic policies for causal inference with functional treatments, where the treatment distribution is modified along a single analyst-chosen basis function. This construction is used to define scientifically meaningful estimands that avoid positivity assumptions while addressing temporal confounding in continuous time. The authors claim to establish asymptotic normality of the resulting estimators along with rate double robustness, and they apply the approach to NHANES data to estimate the causal effect of increased physical activity over three-hour windows on mortality.

Significance. If the single-basis modification can be shown to block relevant temporal feedback paths and the asymptotic results are rigorously derived, the work would advance methodology for policy-relevant causal inference with functional data from wearables. The rate double robustness property, if established, would be a practical strength for applications in health research.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims of asymptotic normality and rate double robustness are stated without any derivation details, error bounds, or verification steps. These properties are load-bearing for the theoretical contribution and cannot be assessed from the given description.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (method description): The claim that modification through a single basis function provides clear control over temporal confounding feedback is load-bearing for the identifying assumption and the applicability of the robustness results. No argument is given showing that this one-dimensional change blocks all relevant feedback loops (e.g., those involving orthogonal components such as intensity versus timing within the three-hour windows), which would be required for the NHANES target parameter to be identified.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The NHANES application is described only in terms of the scientific question; no effect sizes, standard errors, or robustness checks are reported, which limits evaluation of the empirical contribution.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their detailed and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each of the major comments below, indicating where revisions to the manuscript will be made.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims of asymptotic normality and rate double robustness are stated without any derivation details, error bounds, or verification steps. These properties are load-bearing for the theoretical contribution and cannot be assessed from the given description.

    Authors: The abstract serves as a concise summary of the paper's contributions. Detailed derivations of asymptotic normality and rate double robustness, including error bounds and verification steps, are provided in Sections 3 and 4, with complete proofs in the Supplementary Material. We will revise the abstract to include a short phrase indicating that these properties are established via influence function-based estimators and double robustness arguments. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (method description): The claim that modification through a single basis function provides clear control over temporal confounding feedback is load-bearing for the identifying assumption and the applicability of the robustness results. No argument is given showing that this one-dimensional change blocks all relevant feedback loops (e.g., those involving orthogonal components such as intensity versus timing within the three-hour windows), which would be required for the NHANES target parameter to be identified.

    Authors: The single-basis modification is chosen by the analyst to correspond to the scientifically relevant direction of policy change, as described in Section 2. This ensures control over the modification without positivity violations in other directions. The identifying assumptions in Section 2.2 specify that confounding feedback is blocked for the modified component, with orthogonal directions held fixed. We acknowledge that an explicit demonstration that this blocks all relevant loops (including orthogonal ones like intensity vs. timing) is not fully elaborated in the current text. We will add a dedicated paragraph in Section 2.3 providing this argument, including why the NHANES basis function choice (e.g., total count) suffices for the target parameter. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces stochastic policies for functional treatments by modifying the treatment distribution along one analyst-chosen basis function, then derives asymptotic normality and rate double robustness for the resulting estimators. These properties are obtained from the proposed construction and identifying assumptions rather than by fitting parameters to the target NHANES estimand or by reducing via self-citation chains. No load-bearing step equates the claimed prediction or uniqueness result to its own inputs by definition, and the method is presented as new with external theoretical support. The derivation chain remains self-contained against the stated assumptions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the approach relies on standard causal assumptions plus the novel stochastic policy definition.

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