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Natural Indirect Effect

The Natural Indirect Effect is the causal effect of an independent variable on an outcome that operates through a mediator, under a counterfactual framework, distinguishing it from the direct effect by quantifying the portion of the total effect transmitted via the mediator.

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468

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236

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2017–2026

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116

A Simple Unified Approach for Estimating Natural Direct and Indirect Effects

Theis Lange, Stijn Vansteelandt, Maarten Bekaert · American Journal of Epidemiology · 2012 · 457 citations · Full text

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Effect Decomposition in the Presence of an Exposure-Induced Mediator-Outcome Confounder

Tyler J. VanderWeele, Stijn Vansteelandt, James M. Robins · Epidemiology · 2014 · 415 citations · Full text

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Experimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanisms

Kosuke Imai, Dustin Tingley, Teppei Yamamoto · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) · 2012 · 407 citations · Full text

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Semiparametric theory for causal mediation analysis: Efficiency bounds, multiple robustness and sensitivity analysis

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Ilya Shpitser · The Annals of Statistics · 2012 · 291 citations · Full text

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Direct and Indirect Effects in a Survival Context

Theis Lange, Jørgen Vinsløv Hansen · Epidemiology · 2011 · 283 citations

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Authors

468

  1. TJ
    Tyler J. VanderWeele

    Harvard University, United States

    10 publications · 1K citations

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  2. EJ
    Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

    Harvard University, United States

    7 publications · 743 citations

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  3. SV
    Stijn Vansteelandt

    Ghent University, Belgium

    6 publications · 1.2K citations

    6

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  4. MJ
    Mark J. van der Laan

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    5 publications · 223 citations

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  5. TL
    Theis Lange

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    5 publications · 1.1K citations

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Institutions

236

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    16 h-index

    38 publications

    3.3K citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    9 h-index

    19 publications

    635 citations

  3. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    7 h-index

    33 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. Cancer Research And Biostatistics

    Seattle, United States

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    1K citations

  5. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    55 publications

    1.8K citations

  6. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    6 h-index

    17 publications

    2.5K citations

  7. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    847 citations

  8. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    213 citations

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Venues

  1. Epidemiology

    11 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. American Journal of Epidemiology

    AJE · 10 publications · 906 citations

    10

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  3. Epidemiologic Methods

    4 publications · 238 citations

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  4. International Journal of Epidemiology

    4 publications · 148 citations

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  5. Statistics in Medicine

    3 publications · 336 citations

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