Reply: Reply to commentary by Imai, Keele, Tingley, and Yamamoto concerning causal mediation analysis

Psychological Methods

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 488-492

  Pearl, Judea ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactuals; Graphical methods; Mediation formula; Seeing versus doing; Sequential ignorability; Structural causal models

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CAUSALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84925455183     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/met0000022     Document Type: Letter

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