Mediation Analysis with Survival Outcomes: Accelerated Failure Time Versus Proportional Hazards Models

Objective: Survival time is an important type of outcome variable in treatment research. Currently, limited guidance is available regarding performing mediation analyses with survival outcomes, which generally do not have normally distributed errors, and contain unobserved (censored) events. We pres...

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Main Authors: Lois A Gelfand, David P MacKinnon, Robert J DeRubeis, Amanda N Baraldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00423/full