Caleb Miles, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

212-305-1696

cm3825@cumc.columbia.edu

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Overview

Dr. Caleb Miles works on developing semiparametric methods for causal inference and applying them to problems in public health. His applied work is largely in HIV/AIDS, psychiatry, anesthesiology, and urology. His current methodological research interests include causal inference, its intersection with machine learning, mediation analysis, interference, and measurement error.

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

PhD, 2015 Harvard University

Committees, Societies, Councils

Associate Editor, International Journal of Biostatistics

Research

Research Interests

Biostatistical Methods
HIV/AIDS

Selected Publications

Miles, C.H. “On the causal interpretation of randomised interventional indirect effects.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 2023: qkad066, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssb/qkad066

Miles, C.H., Shpitser, I., Kanki, P., Meloni, S., & Tchetgen Tchetgen, E.J. "On semiparametric estimation of a path-specific effect in the presence of mediator-outcome confounding." Biometrika: 107(1). 159-172, 2020.

Miles, C.H., Petersen, M., & van der Laan, M.J. "Causal inference when counterfactuals depend on the proportion of all subjects exposed." Biometrics: 75(3). 768-777, 2019.

Miles, C.H., Schwartz, J., & Tchetgen Tchetgen, E.J. "A class of semiparametric tests of treatment effect robust to confounder measurement error." Statistics in Medicine: 37(24). 3403-3416, 2018.

Miles, C.H., Shpitser, I., Kanki, P., Meloni, S., & Tchetgen Tchetgen, E.J. "Quantifying an adherence path-specific effect of antiretroviral therapy in the Nigeria PEPFAR program." Journal of the American Statistical Association: 112(520). 1443-1452, 2017.

Miles, C.H., Kanki, P., Meloni, S., & Tchetgen Tchetgen, E.J. "On partial identification of the natural indirect effect." Journal of Causal Inference: 5(2). 2017.