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SUBMITTER: Valeri L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4059465 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valeri Linda L Vanderweele Tyler J TJ
Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 20140326 3
Mediation analysis serves to quantify the effect of an exposure on an outcome mediated by a certain intermediate and to quantify the extent to which the effect is direct. When the mediator is misclassified, the validity of mediation analysis can be severely undermined. The contribution of the present work is to study the effects of non-differential misclassification of a binary mediator in the estimation of direct and indirect causal effects when the outcome is either continuous or binary and ex ...[more]