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SUBMITTER: Howe LD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5841634 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of epidemiology 20160801 4
Many questions in life course epidemiology involve mediation and/or interaction because of the long latency period between exposures and outcomes. In this paper, we explore how mediation analysis (based on counterfactual theory and implemented using conventional regression approaches) links with a structured approach to selecting life course hypotheses. Using theory and simulated data, we show how the alternative life course hypotheses assessed in the structured life course approach correspond t ...[more]