Interventional Approach for Path-Specific Effects

Standard causal mediation analysis decomposes the total effect into a direct effect and an indirect effect in settings with only one single mediator. Under the settings with multiple mediators, all mediators are often treated as one single block of mediators. The effect mediated by a certain combina...

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Main Authors: Lin Sheng-Hsuan, VanderWeele Tyler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Causal Inference
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2015-0027