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SUBMITTER: Miocevic M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5999040 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miočević Milica M Gonzalez Oscar O Valente Matthew J MJ MacKinnon David P DP
Structural equation modeling : a multidisciplinary journal 20170725 1
Statistical mediation analysis is used to investigate intermediate variables in the relation between independent and dependent variables. Causal interpretation of mediation analyses is challenging because randomization of subjects to levels of the independent variable does not rule out the possibility of unmeasured confounders of the mediator to outcome relation. Furthermore, commonly used frequentist methods for mediation analysis compute the probability of the data given the null hypothesis, w ...[more]