Functional causal mediation analysis with an application to brain connectivity

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 500, 2012, Pages 1297-1309

  Lindquist, Martin A ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brain connectivity; Causalinference; FMRI; Functional data analysis; Instrumental variable; Mediation; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871997442     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.695640     Document Type: Article

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