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Identification of Causal Mediation Models with an Unobserved Pre-treatment Confounder | |
He, Ping1; Wu, Zhenguo1; Zhang, Xiaohua Douglas2; Geng, Zhi1 | |
2016 | |
Source Publication | STATISTICAL CAUSAL INFERENCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH |
ISSN | 2199-0980 |
Pages | 241-262 |
Abstract | In this paper, we discuss identifiability of mediation, direct and indirect effects of treatment on outcome. The mediation effects are represented by a causal mediation model which includes an unobserved confounder (i.e., a common cause of the mediator and the outcome variable), and the direct and indirect effects are represented by the mediation effects. Without requiring the sequential ignorability assumption or the exclusion restriction assumption (i.e., the absence of direct effect of treatment on outcome), we require that only treatment is randomized and that the degree of equation nonlinearity for the treatment effect on the mediator is higher than that for the outcome. If the requirement of nonlinearity degree is not satisfied, we may use a covariate as an instrumental variable to improve the identifiability. In this paper, we focus on the identifiability of parameters, although, to illustrate our identifiability results, we describe estimation approaches. The simulations show good estimation performance by our approach compared to the standard mediation approach. |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-41259-7_13 |
Indexed By | SCIE |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Health Care Sciences & Services ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences ; Mathematics |
WOS Subject | Health Care Sciences & Services ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods ; Statistics & Probability |
WOS ID | WOS:000411272500014 |
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Document Type | Journal article |
Collection | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Corresponding Author | He, Ping; Wu, Zhenguo; Zhang, Xiaohua Douglas; Geng, Zhi |
Affiliation | 1.Peking Univ, Sch Math Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China 2.Univ Macau, Fac Hlth Sci, Macau, Peoples R China |
Corresponding Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | He, Ping,Wu, Zhenguo,Zhang, Xiaohua Douglas,et al. Identification of Causal Mediation Models with an Unobserved Pre-treatment Confounder[J]. STATISTICAL CAUSAL INFERENCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH, 2016, 241-262. |
APA | He, Ping., Wu, Zhenguo., Zhang, Xiaohua Douglas., & Geng, Zhi (2016). Identification of Causal Mediation Models with an Unobserved Pre-treatment Confounder. STATISTICAL CAUSAL INFERENCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH, 241-262. |
MLA | He, Ping,et al."Identification of Causal Mediation Models with an Unobserved Pre-treatment Confounder".STATISTICAL CAUSAL INFERENCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH (2016):241-262. |
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