RAPSEM: Identifying Latent Mediators Without Sequential Ignorability via a Rank-Preserving Structural Equation Model
RAPSEM:无需序贯可忽略性的秩保持结构方程模型潜在中介识别
Standard structural equation models (SEMs) are often used to identify latent mediators. However, valid inference typically relies on the strong, frequently violated Sequential Ignorability assumption. We introduce the Rank-Preserving Structural Equation Model (RAPSEM), which increases robustness through G-estimation while maintaining the measurement model's integrity through a two-stage method of moments (2SMM) for factor score corrections. RAPSEM replaces the no unmeasured…