Robust and flexible estimation of stochastic mediation effects: a proposed method and example in a randomized trial setting

DOI10.1515/em-2017-0007zbMath1420.92068arXiv1707.09021OpenAlexW3099495244MaRDI QIDQ2324996

Kara E. Rudolph, Oleg Sofrygin, Wen Jing Zheng, Mark J. Van der Laan

Publication date: 12 September 2019

Published in: Epidemiologic Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09021

zbMATH Keywords

mediationdirect effectdouble robustindirect effecttargeted maximum likelihood estimationdata-dependenttargeted minimum loss-based estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Medical epidemiology (92C60)

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• R
• SPSS
• SAS
• SuperLearner

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