3 papers
stat.ME2020
The primary importance of the research question: Implications for understanding natural versus controlled direct effects and the 'cross-world independence assumption'
Ian Shrier, Etsuji Suzuki
When developing new interventions to minimize the harmful effects of an exposure, investigators usually target the mechanisms that mediate the causal effect of the exposure on the…
stat.ME2016
Effect heterogeneity and variable selection for standardizing causal effects to a target population
Anders Huitfeldt, Sonja A. Swanson, Mats Julius Stensrud +1
The participants in randomized trials and other studies used for causal inference are often not representative of the populations seen by clinical decision-makers. To account for d…
stat.ME2016
On the collapsibility of measures of effect in the counterfactual causal framework
Anders Huitfeldt, Mats Julius Stensrud, Etsuji Suzuki
A measure of association is said to be collapsible over a set of baseline covariates if the marginal value of the measure of association is equal to a weighted average of the strat…