Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen

Publications and Technical Reports

Robust Estimation of Pure/Natural Direct Effects with Mediator Measurement Error (September 5, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen and Sheng Hsuan Lin. Appendix

On Identification of Natural Direct Effects when a Confounder of the Mediator is Directly Affected by Exposure (June 5, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen and Tyler J. VanderWeele

Robustness of Measures of Interaction to Unmeasured Confounding (March 12, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen and Tyler J. VanderWeele

On a Logistic Mixed Model Formulation of a Quadatic Exponential Model for Correlated Binary Outcomes (February 29, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

Inverse Odds Ratio-Weighted Estimation for Causal Mediation Analysis (February 13, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

Multiple-Robust Estimation of an Odds Ratio Interaction (February 13, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

On Parametrization, Robustness and Sensitivity Analysis in a Marginal Structural Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Point Exposure (February 13, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen and James M. Robins

A Cautionary Note on Specification of the Correlation Structure in Inverse-Probability-Weighted Estimation for Repeated Measures (February 13, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, M. Maria Glymour, Jennifer Weuve, and James Robins

Formulae for Causal Mediation Analysis in an Odds Ratio Context Without a Normality Assumption for the Continuous Mediator (February 13, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

On a Closed-form Doubly Robust Estimator of the Adjusted Odds Ratio for a Binary Exposure (February 13, 2012) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen  

Estimation of Risk Ratios in Cohort Studies With Common Outcomes: A Simple and Efficient Two-stage Approach (September 2011) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

Semiparametric Theory for Causal Mediation Analysis: efficiency bounds, multiple robustness, and sensitivity analysis (June 3, 2011) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen and Ilya Shpitser

Semiparametric Estimation of Models for Natural Direct and Indirect Effects (June 3, 2011) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen and Ilya Shpitser

On Causal Mediation Analysis with a Survival Outcome (June 3, 2011) Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

A simple implementation of doubly robust estimation in missing data and causal models” Technical Report (2009) by Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

On doubly robust estimation in a semi-parametric odds ratio model” Technical Report (2009) by Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, James M. Robins and Andrea Rotnitzky

The semi-parametric case-only estimator” Technical Report (2009) by Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen and James Robins

Double-robust adjustment for confounding and missing covariate data in cohort and case-control studies” Technical Report (2009) by Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen and Andrea Rotnitzky


Tchetgen Tchetgen E and Robins J. The semi-parametric case-only estimator. Biometrics (2010) In Press

Cerdá M, Diez-Roux A, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Gordon-Larsen P, Kiefe C.  Using marginal structural models to estimate the relationship between neighborhood poverty and alcohol use and misuse: the CARDIA study. Epidemiology (2010) In Press

Lipsitch M, Tchetgen Tchetgen E., Cohen T. The use of negative controls to detect confounding and other sources of error in experimental and observational science. Epidemiology (2010) In Press.

Robins J, Tchetgen Tchetgen E , Li L., van der Vaart, Semiparametric Minimax Rates. Electronic Journal of Statistics 2009,3, 1305-1321

Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Robins J, Rotnitzky A. On Doubly robust estimation of a semi-parametric odds ratio model. Biometrika (2009). In press 

Tchetgen Tchetgen. A simple implementation of doubly robust estimation in logistic regression with covariates missing at random. Epidemiology 2009 ,vol 20, Issue 3 , pp 391-394

Vansteelandt S., VanderWeele T.J., Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Robins J.M., Multiply robust inference for statistical interactions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 2008, Vol. 103, No. 484, Theory and Methods 

Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Li L, van der Vaart A., Robins J.  Minimax estimation of the integral of a power of a density. Statistics & Probability Letters. Volume 78,15 December 2008, Pages 3307-3311.

Tchetgen Tchetgen E J On Doubly and Multiple robustness in the analysis of randomized studies with informative dropout. An invited discussion of an article by Geert Molenberghs. Drug Information Journal 2009, vol 43 page 433-435.

Robins J, Li L, Tchetgen E. ,van der Vaart A. Quadratic semiparametric Von Mises Calculus. Metrika Volume 69, Numbers 2-3 , March 2009. 

Robins J, Li L, Tchetgen E. ,van der Vaart A. Higher order influence functions and minimax estimation of nonlinear functionals. Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of David A. Freedman. Eds: Deborah Nolan and Terry Speed. 2008.   

Harezlak J, Tchetgen E., Li, X. Variable selection in regression, prediction, screening, sparsity.  Modern statistical methods for high dimensional data. (In Press). 2008.

Tchetgen E, Coull B. A Diagnostic Test for the Mixing Distribution in a Generalized Linear Mixed Model, Biometrika 2006 93(4):1003-1010;

Tchetgen E, Lingling Li, van der Vaart A., Robins J. Robust Inference with Higher Order Influence Functions: Part I .Proceedings of the American Statistical Association , 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lingling Li, Tchetgen E, van der Vaart A, Robins J.  Robust Inference with Higher Order Influence Functions: Part II.  Proceedings of the American Statistical Association  2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

McDermott AY, Terrin N, Wanke C, Skinner S, Tchetgen E, Shevitz, AH. CD4+ cell count, viral load, and highly active antiretroviral therapy use are independent predictors of body composition alterations in HIV-infected Adults: a longitudinal study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2005 Dec 1:41(11):1662-70.

Tchetgen E, Kaplan EH, Friedland GH: The Public Health Consequences of Screening Patients for Adherence to HAART, Journal of AIDS 2000; 26:118-129.

Wilson IB, Tchetgen E, Spiegelman D. “Patterns of adherence with antiretroviral medications: an examination of between-medication differences”  Journal of AIDS 2001:Volume 28(3)1 pp 259-263

Forrester JE, Spiegelman D, Tchetgen E, Gorbach SL. Fat and lean body mass in HIV-associated weight loss. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 76, No. 6, 1428-1434, December 2002

Roubenoff R, Grinspoon S, Skolnik PR, Tchetgen E, Abad L, Spiegelman D et al. Role of cytokines and testosterone in regulating lean body mass and resting energy expenditure in HIV-infected men.  Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2002; 283: E138-45

Tang AM, Forrester J, Spiegelman D, Knox TA, Tchetgen E, Gorbach SL. Weight Loss and Survival in HIV-Positive Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy. Journal of AIDS 2002; 31: 230-6.