When is the Difference Method Conservative for Assessing Mediation?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 105-108

  Jiang, Zhichao ^a   Vanderweele, Tyler J ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; DIFFERENCE METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDIATION ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME VARIABLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84936745712     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv059     Document Type: Article

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