A principled approach to mediation analysis in perinatal epidemiology
Cande V. Ananth, Justin S. Brandt
Topics & Concepts
MediationConfoundingCausal analysisMediatorCausal inferenceCausal modelCausality (physics)MedicineProxy (statistics)PsychologyDevelopmental psychologyMechanism (biology)Gestational ageCausal structureMarginal structural modelAmbiguityResearch designPathway analysisStructural equation modelingAdvanced Causal Inference TechniquesPreterm Birth and ChorioamnionitisStatistical Methods and Bayesian Inference