Causal Mediation Analysis in the Multilevel Intervention and Multicomponent Mediator Case
多水平干预与多分量中介下的因果中介分析
Summary Mediation analysis is an important tool in social and medical sciences as it helps to understand why an intervention works. The commonly used approach, given by Baron and Kenny, requires the strong assumption ‘sequential ignorability’ to yield causal interpretation. Ten Have and his colleagues proposed a rank preserving model to relax this assumption. However, the rank preserving model is restricted to the case with binary intervention and single mediator and needs…