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Inverse Probability Weighting-based Mediation Analysis for Microbiome Data
Yuexia Zhang, Jian Wang, Jiayi Shen +4
Motivation: Mediation analysis is an important tool for elucidating causal mechanisms in biomedical research and has recently gained increasing attention in microbiome studies. Mot…
Weak signal identification and inference in penalized likelihood models for categorical responses
Yuexia Zhang, Peibei Shi, Zhongyi Zhu +2
Penalized likelihood models are widely used to simultaneously select variables and estimate model parameters. However, the existence of weak signals can lead to inaccurate variable…
Homogeneity in the instrument-treatment association is not sufficient for the Wald estimand to equal the average causal effect for a binary instrument and a continuous exposure
Fernando Pires Hartwig, Linbo Wang, George Davey Smith +1
Background: Interpreting instrumental variable results often requires further assumptions in addition to the core assumptions of relevance, independence, and the exclusion restrict…
Causal Inference on Distribution Functions
Zhenhua Lin, Dehan Kong, Linbo Wang
Understanding causal relationships is one of the most important goals of modern science. So far, the causal inference literature has focused almost exclusively on outcomes coming f…