DirectEffects: Estimating Controlled Direct Effects for Explaining Causal Findings

A set of functions to estimate the controlled direct effect of treatment fixing a potential mediator to a specific value. Implements the sequential g-estimation estimator described in Vansteelandt (2009) <doi:10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181b6f4c9> and Acharya, Blackwell, and Sen (2016) <doi:10.1017/S0003055416000216>.

Package details

AuthorMatthew Blackwell [aut, cre], Avidit Acharya [aut], Maya Sen [aut], Shiro Kuriwaki [aut], Jacob Brown [aut]
MaintainerMatthew Blackwell <mblackwell@gov.harvard.edu>
LicenseGPL (>= 2)
Version0.2.1
URL https://www.mattblackwell.org/software/direct-effects/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("DirectEffects")

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