Causal mediation analysis comprises a set of statistical techniques designed to disentangle the pathways through which an exposure or treatment exerts its effect on an outcome. By partitioning the ...
Over the past few months more healthcare articles have featured a new (at least for me) statistical methodology: mediation analysis. It doesn’t prove causality, but it can assign a value to the impact ...
European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 31, No. 6 (2016), pp. 625-633 (9 pages) Hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) viruses cause many liver diseases. To move beyond statistical interaction, we aimed to ...