A Bayesian nonparametric approach for causal inference with multiple mediators
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多重中介因果推断的贝叶斯非参数方法
- 研究问题
- 当多个中介同时观测时，如何灵活估计单个与联合中介效应，减少参数模型误设，并避免强制联合效应等于个体效应之和？
- 方法与思路
- 作者用三层丰富化 Dirichlet 过程混合建模结局、中介、处理和混杂变量的联合分布，再通过标准化计算因果中介效应。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，该方法在三个不可检验假设下识别单个与联合中介效应，以模拟展示表现，并应用于呼吸机相关肺炎患者数据。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对三个不可检验假设的具体内容、中介之间的依赖处理、各效应定义，以及非参数拟合如何传递到效应不确定性。
- 阅读边界
- 这是 arXiv 预印本，同行评审或期刊接收未核实；摘要未列三个识别假设及具体结果，灵活建模不能替代因果识别论证。
原文摘要
Mediation analysis with contemporaneously observed multiple mediators is an important area of causal inference. Recent approaches for multiple mediators are often based on parametric models and thus may suffer from model misspecification. Also, much of the existing literature either only allow estimation of the joint mediation effect, or, estimate the joint mediation effect as the sum of individual mediator effects, which often is not a reasonable assumption. In this paper, we propose a methodology which overcomes the two aforementioned drawbacks. Our method is based on a novel Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) approach, wherein the joint distribution of the observed data (outcome, mediators, treatment, and confounders) is modeled flexibly using an enriched Dirichlet process mixture with three levels: the first level characterizing the conditional distribution of the outcome given the mediators, treatment and the confounders, the second level corresponding to the conditional distribution of each of the mediators given the treatment and the confounders, and the third level corresponding to the distribution of the treatment and the confounders. We use standardization (g-computation) to compute causal mediation effects under three uncheckable assumptions that allow identification of the individual and joint mediation effects. The efficacy of our proposed method is demonstrated with simulations. We apply our proposed method to analyze data from a study of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia (VAP) co-infected patients, where the effect of the abundance of Pseudomonas on VAP infection is suspected to be mediated through antibiotics.