The estimation of direct and indirect causal effects in the presence of misclassified binary mediator

Biostatistics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 498-512

  Valeri, Linda ^a   Vanderweele, Tyler J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

EMalgorithm; Iteratively re weighted least squares; Mediation analysis; Misclassification; Pre eclampsia; Pre term birth; Predictive value weighting; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84902656552     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxu007     Document Type: Article

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