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Positivity violations in marginal structural survival models with time-dependent confounding: a simulation study on IPTW-estimator performance

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arXiv:2403.19606v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In longitudinal observational studies, marginal structural models (MSMs) are a class of causal models used to analyze the effect of an exposure on the (survival) outcome of interest while accounting for exposure-affected time-dependent confounding. In the applied literature, inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) has been widely adopted to estimate MSMs. An essential assumption for IPTW-based MSMs is the positivity assumption, which ensures that each individual in the population has a non-zero probability of receiving each exposure level within confounder strata. Positivity, along with consistency, conditional exchangeability, and correct specification of the weighting model, is crucial for valid causal inference through IPTW-based MSMs but is often overlooked compared to confounding bias. Positivity violations can arise from subjects having a zero probability of being exposed/unexposed (strict violations) or near-zero probabilities due to sampling variability (near violations). This article discusses the effect of violations in the positivity assumption on the estimates from IPTW-based MSMs. Building on the algorithms for simulating longitudinal survival data from MSMs by Havercroft and Didelez (2012) and Keogh et al. (2021), systematic simulations under strict/near positivity violations are performed. Various scenarios are explored by varying (i) the size of the confounder interval in which positivity violations arise, (ii) the sample size, (iii) the weight truncation strategy, and (iv) the subject's propensity to follow the protocol violation rule. This study underscores the importance of assessing positivity violations in IPTW-based MSMs to ensure robust and reliable causal inference in survival analyses.

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