Simple relations between principal stratification and direct and indirect effects

By Tyler J. VanderWeele. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability

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The Mediation Formula: A Guide to the Assessment of Causal Pathways in Nonlinear Models (2011, background): “…of “principal-strata direct effect” have encountered basic conceptual difficulties (Lauritzen, 2004; Robins et al., 2007, 2009; Pearl, 2009b), concluding that “it is not always clear that knowing about the presence of principal stratification effects will be of particular use” (VanderWeele, 2008).”
Experimental designs for identifying causal mechanisms (2013, background): “However, for the other units, direct and indirect effects cannot be defined, which makes it difficult to answer the main question of causal mediation analysis, i.e., whether or not the treatment affects the outcome through the mediator of interest (see VanderWeele, 2008, for further discussions).”
Identification, Inference and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effects (2010, background): “Although some estimate E(Yi(1,Mi(1)) − Yi(0,Mi(0))|Mi(1) 6=Mi(0)) and compare it with the above average direct effect, as VanderWeele (2008) points out, the problem of such comparison is that two quantities are defined for different subsets of the population.”
The International Journal of Biostatistics Principal Stratification — a Goal or a Tool ? (2011, unknown): “Conversely, attempts to define and understand mediation using the notion of “principal-strata direct effect” have concluded that “it is not always clear that knowing about the presence of principal stratification effects will be of particular use” (VanderWeele, 2008).”
Partial Identification of Local Average Treatment Effects With an Invalid Instrument (2013, background): “However, in a setting with heterogeneous effects, it does not decompose the ATEZY into a net and mechanism effect the way NATE and MATE do (e.g., VanderWeele 2008; Flores and Flores-Lagunes 2010, 2011; Mealli and Mattei 2012).”
Conceptual issues concerning mediation, interventions and composition (2009, methodology): “We conclude this section by noting that in cases in which interventions on the exposure of interest are conceivable but interventions on the mediator are not, an alternative approach to assessing mediation is possible using concepts of principal stratification (Frangakis and Rubin, 2002; Rubin, 2004”
Causal mediation analysis in economics: Objectives, assumptions, models (2021, methodology): “…the identi cation of the e ects of interest under principal strata in mediation has been criticized for not permitting a decomposition of direct and indirect e ect on compliers in a DID framework and focussing on subgroups that may be less interesting than the entire population (VanderWeele 2008).”
Mediation analysis allowing for exposure-mediator interactions and causal interpretation: theoretical assumptions and implementation with SAS and SPSS macros (2013, unknown): “…however, when using a binary outcome and 1 Note that a different way to think about inference with regard to an intermediate within the counterfactual approach framework is to use the concept of " principal strata " (Chiba, 2010; Frangakis & Rubin, 2002; Jo, 2008; Rubin, 2004; VanderWeele, 2008).”
Augmented designs to assess principal strata direct effects (2011, background): “VanderWeele (2008) studied the conceptual relationships between PSDEs and CDEs and NDEs, showing that if there are no CDEs or no NDEs then there can be no PSDEs.”
Principal Stratification (2015, background): “For a general discussion of mediation, see VanderWeele (2008) and Pearl (2011).”