Causal Mediation Analysis: Selection with Asymptotically Valid Inference
因果中介分析:具有渐近有效推断的变量选择
Researchers are often interested in learning not only the effect of treatments on outcomes, but also the pathways through which these effects operate. A mediator is a variable that is affected by treatment and subsequently affects outcome. Existing methods for penalized mediation analyses may lead to ignoring important mediators and either assume that finite-dimensional linear models are sufficient to remove confounding bias, or perform no confounding control at all. In…