Statistical mediation analysis for models with a binary mediator and a binary outcome: The differences between causal and traditional mediation analysis

JJM Rijnhart, MJ Valente, HL Smyth, DP MacKinnon - Prevention Science, 2021 - Springer
… and binary outcome is a goal of this paper. … estimators for mediation models with a binary
mediator and a binary outcome. We start with an introduction to traditional mediation analysis. …

Mediation analysis for common binary outcomes

SM Gaynor, J Schwartz, X Lin - Statistics in medicine, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… In order to address this additional challenge that occurs under the binary mediator setting,
we refer to simulation studies which have shown that regression calibration can also be used …

Mediation analysis with multiple mediators

T VanderWeele, S Vansteelandt - Epidemiologic methods, 2014 - degruyter.com
mediator that were binary. If we also wanted to allow for exposure–mediator interaction with
a mediator that was binary, … We could once again do this for each mediator that were binary

Exact parametric causal mediation analysis for a binary outcome with a binary mediator

M Doretti, M Raggi, E Stanghellini - Statistical Methods & Applications, 2022 - Springer
… In this paper, we focus on a setting with a binary outcome and a binary mediator, both
modelled via a logistic regression. We provide a novel parametric expression for the natural direct …

Mediation analysis with binary outcomes: Direct and indirect effects of pro-alcohol influences on alcohol use disorders

A Feingold, DP MacKinnon, DM Capaldi - Addictive behaviors, 2019 - Elsevier
… age (the binary outcome)—with alcohol expectancies as the mediator—were examined
to … of mediation analysis with a binary dependent variable. Two different mediation models—a …

Mediation analysis: a practitioner's guide

TJ VanderWeele - Annual review of public health, 2016 - annualreviews.org
… to binary mediators. Suppose that the mediator is binary and the outcome is continuous and
… the following models are correctly specified, which allows for exposure-mediator interaction: …

Estimation of the mediation effect with a binary mediator

Y Li, JA Schneider, DA Bennett - Statistics in Medicine, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… Based on Equations (5)–(7), we can now discuss the methods for mediation analysis in the
presence of a continuous mediator. These methods are broadly conceptualized as reflecting …

The use of traditional and causal estimators for mediation models with a binary outcome and exposure-mediator interaction

JJM Rijnhart, MJ Valente, DP MacKinnon… - … equation modeling: a …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… Based on the comparisons in this paper we conclude that, for models with a continuous
mediator and binary outcome, traditional mediation analysis may only be used to estimate the …

Mediation analysis of categorical variables

FJZL WEN - Journal of Psychological Science, 2017 - psysci.org
… models, such as single-step or parallel multiple mediator models in which there is more
than one mediator. Finally, it is a promising direction to analyze the mediation effect with binary

Causal mediation analysis with a binary outcome and multiple continuous or ordinal mediators: Simulations and application to an alcohol intervention

TQ Nguyen, Y Webb-Vargas, IM Koning… - … equation modeling: a …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
mediators on a binary outcome: (a) fit a structural equation model with probit link for the outcome
and identity/probit link for continuous/ordinal mediators, … residual mediator variance and …