Mediation analysis with multiple mediators

Epidemiologic Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-115

  Van Der weele, Tyler ^a   Vansteelandt, Stijn ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Direct and indirect effects; Joint effects mediation; Regression; Weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042806754     PISSN: 21949263     EISSN: 2161962X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/em-2012-0010     Document Type: Article

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