A review of causal estimation of effects in mediation analyses

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-107

  Ten Have, Thomas R ^a   Joffe, Marshall M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

baseline randomisation; direct effects; principal stratification; sequential ignorability; structural mean models; treatment mediator interactions; unmeasured confounding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 84856049115     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280210391076     Document Type: Article

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