Insights into the cross-world independence assumption of causal mediation analysis

RM Andrews, V Didelez - Epidemiology, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Causal mediation analysis is a useful tool for epidemiologic research, but it has been
criticized for relying on a “cross-world” independence assumption that counterfactual …

Outcomes of various classes of oral antidiabetic drugs on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

H Jang, Y Kim, DH Lee, SK Joo, BK Koo… - JAMA Internal …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Several oral antidiabetic drug (OAD) classes can potentially improve patient
outcomes in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to varying degrees, but clinical data on …

Counterfactual neural temporal point process for estimating causal influence of misinformation on social media

Y Zhang, D Cao, Y Liu - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent years have witnessed the rise of misinformation campaigns that spread specific
narratives on social media to manipulate public opinions on different areas, such as politics …

An interventionist approach to mediation analysis

JM Robins, TS Richardson, I Shpitser - Probabilistic and causal …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Probabilistic and Causal Inference: The Works of Judea Pearl: An Interventionist Approach to
Mediation Analysis Page 1 38 Judea Pearl’s insight that, when errors are assumed …

A generalized theory of separable effects in competing event settings

MJ Stensrud, MA Hernán, EJ Tchetgen Tchetgen… - Lifetime data …, 2021 - Springer
In competing event settings, a counterfactual contrast of cause-specific cumulative
incidences quantifies the total causal effect of a treatment on the event of interest. However …

Defining causal mediation with a longitudinal mediator and a survival outcome

V Didelez - Lifetime data analysis, 2019 - Springer
In the context of causal mediation analysis, prevailing notions of direct and indirect effects
are based on nested counterfactuals. These can be problematic regarding interpretation and …

Time-varying intensity of oxygen exposure is associated with mortality in critically ill patients with mechanical ventilation

Z Zhu, M Zhou, Y Wei, H Chen - Critical Care, 2022 - Springer
Background There is no consensus exists regarding the association between oxygen
exposure (arterial oxygen tension or fraction of inspired oxygen) and outcomes for patients …

Reducing socio-economic inequalities in all-cause mortality: a counterfactual mediation approach

JE Laine, VT Baltar, S Stringhini… - International Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Socio-economic inequalities in mortality are well established, yet the
contribution of intermediate risk factors that may underlie these relationships remains …

Causal modeling of policy interventions from treatment-outcome sequences

Ç Hızlı, ST John, AT Juuti, TT Saarinen… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
A treatment policy defines when and what treatments are applied to affect some outcome of
interest. Data-driven decision-making requires the ability to predict what happens if a policy …

Causal inference for event pairs in multivariate point processes

T Gao, D Subramanian… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Causal inference and discovery from observational data has been extensively studied
across multiple fields. However, most prior work has focused on independent and identically …