Clarifying causal mediation analysis: Effect identification via three assumptions and five potential outcomes
Causal mediation analysis is complicated with multiple effect definitions that require different sets of assumptions for identification. This article provides a systematic explanation of such assumptions. We define five potential outcome types whose means are involved in various effect definitions....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Causal Inference |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2021-0049 |