Med4way: a Stata command to investigate mediating and interactive mechanisms using the four-way effect decomposition

A Discacciati, A Bellavia, JJ Lee, M Mazumdar, L Valeri - 2019 - academic.oup.com
The overall effect of an exposure on an outcome, in the presence of a mediator with which
the exposure may interact, can be decomposed into four components that correspond to the …

Causal effects in mediation modeling: An introduction with applications to latent variables

B Muthén, T Asparouhov - Structural equation modeling: a …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Causal inference in mediation analysis offers counterfactually based causal definitions of
direct and indirect effects, drawing on research by Robins, Greenland, Pearl, VanderWeele …

Questions of value, questions of magnitude: An exploration and application of methods for comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models

JJ Coutts, AF Hayes - Behavior research methods, 2023 - Springer
Mediation analysis is widely used to test and inform theory and debate about the mechanism
(s) by which causal effects operate, quantitatively operationalized as an indirect effect in a …

Causal mediation analysis in presence of multiple mediators uncausally related

A Jérolon, L Baglietto, E Birmelé, F Alarcon… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Mediation analysis aims at disentangling the effects of a treatment on an outcome through
alternative causal mechanisms and has become a popular practice in biomedical and social …

The causal mediation formula—a guide to the assessment of pathways and mechanisms

J Pearl - Prevention science, 2012 - Springer
Recent advances in causal inference have given rise to a general and easy-to-use formula
for assessing the extent to which the effect of one variable on another is mediated by a third …

Mediation analysis methods used in observational research: a scoping review and recommendations

JJM Rijnhart, SJ Lamp, MJ Valente… - BMC medical research …, 2021 - Springer
Background Mediation analysis methodology underwent many advancements throughout
the years, with the most recent and important advancement being the development of causal …

A general approach to causal mediation analysis.

K Imai, L Keele, D Tingley - Psychological methods, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Traditionally in the social sciences, causal mediation analysis has been formulated,
understood, and implemented within the framework of linear structural equation models. We …

Mediation analysis when a continuous mediator is measured with error and the outcome follows a generalized linear model

L Valeri, X Lin, TJ VanderWeele - Statistics in medicine, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mediation analysis is a popular approach to examine the extent to which the effect of an
exposure on an outcome is through an intermediate variable (mediator) and the extent to …

Causal mediation analysis of survival outcome with multiple mediators

YT Huang, HI Yang - Epidemiology, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Mediation analyses have been a popular approach to investigate the effect of
an exposure on an outcome through a mediator. Mediation models with multiple mediators …

A review of causal estimation of effects in mediation analyses

TR Ten Have, MM Joffe - Statistical Methods in Medical …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
We describe causal mediation methods for analysing the mechanistic factors through which
interventions act on outcomes. A number of different mediation approaches have been …