Project

Dealing with effect decomposition and intermediate confounding in causal mediation analysis

Code
3G011112
Duration
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2017
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Statistics and numerical methods
Keywords
statistics causal inference mediation analysis
 
Project description

Mediation analysis concerns decomposition of a causal effect into direct and mediated effects. The simplicity of current methods does not match the complexity of realistic data: estimation principles for continuous data are being applied to other data types with no justification; moreover, the problem of confounding is largely ignored. This project aims to overcome these limitations.