The use of AI, or more generally data-driven algorithms, has become ubiquitous in today’s society. Yet, in many cases and especially when stakes ar...

Provides tools to conduct interpretable sensitivity analyses for weighted estimators, introduced in Huang (2024) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fjrsssa%2Fqnae012" target="_top">doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnae012</a>&gt; and Hartman and Huang (2024) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fpan.2023.12" target="_top">doi:10.1017/pan.2023.12</a>&gt;. The package allows researchers to generate the set of recommended sensitivity summaries to evaluate the sensitivity in their underlying weighting estimators to omitted moderators or confounders. The tools can be flexibly applied in causal inference settings (i.e., in external and internal validity contexts) or survey contexts.

To conduct causal inference in observational settings, researchers must rely on certain identifying assumptions. In practice, these assumptions are unlikely to hold exactly. This paper considers the bias of selection-on-observables, instrumental variables, and proximal inference estimates under violations of their identifying assumptions. We develop bias expressions for IV and proximal inference that show how violations of their respective assumptions are amplified by any unmeasured confounding in the outcome variable. We propose a set of sensitivity tools that quantify the sensitivity of different identification strategies, and an augmented bias contour plot visualizes the relationship between these strategies. We argue that the act of choosing an identification strategy implicitly expresses a belief about the degree of violations that must be present in alternative identification strategies. Even when researchers intend to conduct an IV or proximal analysis, a sensitivity analysis comparing different identification strategies can help to better understand the implications of each set of assumptions. Throughout, we compare the different approaches on a re-analysis of the impact of state surveillance on the incidence of protest in Communist Poland.

To test scientific theories and develop individualized treatment rules, researchers often wish to learn heterogeneous treatment effects that can be consistently found across diverse populations and co...