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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 3, 2026
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This is a preprint proposing a modified estimator for extreme quantile treatment effects under heavy-tailed distributions that is invariant to location shifts of potential outcomes. The work is purely methodological, establishing theoretical properties (consistency, asymptotic normality) and demonstrating them via simulation, without testing on real clinical or applied data.
Theoretical methodological study with simulation.
Proposed estimator achieves location invariance, a property the population QTE possesses but existing extremal QTE estimators do not Consistency and asymptotic normality established for the proposed extremal QTE estimators Simulation study confirms location invariance, stability with respect to threshold, and coverage of proposed methods
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This is methodological work presenting a novel estimator for a technical problem in causal inference; it lacks clinical or applied validation and does not test a treatment effect in a real population.
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Quantile treatment effects (QTEs) measure the effect of a treatment on the distribution of an outcome, and their estimation at extreme quantile levels is of central interest in applications where the target quantiles lie far beyond the range of the data. For heavy-tailed potential outcomes, existing extremal QTE estimators rely on extrapolation combined with a causal extreme value index (EVI) estimator, but the resulting estimator is not invariant under a common location shift of the potential outcome distributions, even though the population QTE is. We address this issue in two steps. First, we adapt the location-invariant Fraga estimator of the EVI to the causal setting using inverse propensity score weighting. Second, we replace the original extrapolation formula with a difference-based scheme, under which the location parameter cancels when quantile differences are taken. The resulting QTE estimator is therefore location invariant. We establish the consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed extremal QTE estimators, and provide a consistent variance estimator, leading to asymptotically valid inference. A simulation study confirms the location invariance, the stability with respect to the threshold, and the coverage of the proposed methods.
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