A case study of causal mediation using Bayesian nonparametrics and semiparametric corrections
结合贝叶斯非参数与半参数校正的因果中介分析案例
We propose a Bayesian nonparametric approach using a truncated Enriched Dirichlet Process mixture (EDPM) model to estimate natural direct (NDE) and indirect (NIE) effects in causal mediation analyses in the presence of post-treatment confounders. We introduce an efficient cluster reallocation Metropolis-Hasting algorithm to improve mixing in the blocked Gibbs sampler. We implement a one-step posterior correction based on the efficient influence function for our setting. This…