A principled approach to mediation analysis in perinatal epidemiology

CV Ananth, JS Brandt - American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 2022 - Elsevier
For many research questions in perinatal epidemiology, gestational age is a mediator that
features the causal pathway between exposure and outcome. A mediator is an intermediate …

[图书][B] Principles and practice of structural equation modeling

RB Kline - 2023 - books.google.com
Significantly revised, the fifth edition of the most complete, accessible text now covers all
three approaches to structural equation modeling (SEM)--covariance-based SEM …

Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects

WW Loh, D Ren - Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mediation analysis is indispensable for investigating how a treatment causally affects an
outcome via intervening variables. Existing discussions on the validity of causal inference …

Three-level evaluation method of cumulative slope deformation hybrid machine learning models and interpretability analysis

Z Deng, K Xie, Q Su, L Xu, Z Hao, X Xiao - Construction and Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
The study aims to address the issues of limited evaluation metrics and low visualization for
Machine Learning (ML) models in Cumulative Slope Deformation (CSD) prediction. Firstly …

[HTML][HTML] The role of psychosocial well-being and emotion-driven impulsiveness in food choices of European adolescents

S Do, V Didelez, C Börnhorst, JMJ Coumans… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Background It is unclear whether a hypothetical intervention targeting either psychosocial
well-being or emotion-driven impulsiveness is more effective in reducing unhealthy food …

Mediating role of psychological distress in the associations between neighborhood social environments and sleep health

B Kim, WM Troxel, T Dubowitz, GP Hunter… - Sleep, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives The characteristics of neighborhood social environments, such as
safety and social cohesion, have been examined as determinants of poor sleep. The current …

Practical causal mediation analysis: extending nonparametric estimators to accommodate multiple mediators and multiple intermediate confounders

KE Rudolph, NT Williams, I Diaz - Biostatistics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mediation analysis is appealing for its ability to improve understanding of the mechanistic
drivers of causal effects, but real-world data complexities challenge its successful …

[HTML][HTML] Applied causal inference methods for sequential mediators

D Zugna, M Popovic, F Fasanelli, B Heude… - BMC Medical Research …, 2022 - Springer
Background Mediation analysis aims at estimating to what extent the effect of an exposure
on an outcome is explained by a set of mediators on the causal pathway between the …

Decomposition, identification and multiply robust estimation of natural mediation effects with multiple mediators

F Xia, KCG Chan - Biometrika, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Natural mediation effects are desirable estimands for studying causal mechanisms in a
population, but complications arise in defining and estimating natural indirect effects through …

Causal inference for the expected number of recurrent events in the presence of a terminal event

BR Baer, RL Strawderman, A Ertefaie - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16571, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study causal inference and efficient estimation for the expected number of recurrent
events in the presence of a terminal event. We define our estimand as the vector comprising …