medflex: An R Package for Flexible Mediation Analysis using Natural Effect Models

Mediation analysis is routinely adopted by researchers from a wide range of applied disciplines as a statistical tool to disentangle the causal pathways by which an exposure or treatment affects an outcome. The counterfactual framework provides a language for clearly defining path-specific effects o...

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Main Authors: Johan Steen, Tom Loeys, Beatrijs Moerkerke, Stijn Vansteelandt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
R
Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/3044