frontdr_np: Estimate the Effect Using the Front-Door Method

In FrankLef/fciR: Data and functions used with Fundamentals of Causal Inference by Babette Brumback

Estimate the Effect Using the Front-Door Method

Description

Estimate the effect using Front-door method.

Usage

frontdr_np(data, formula, exposure.name, surrogate.name)

frontdoor.r(data, formula, exposure.name, surrogate.name)

Arguments

data	Dataframe of raw data.
formula	Formula representing the model.
exposure.name	Name of exposure variable.
surrogate.name	Name of the surrogate variable.

Details

Estimate the effect using Front-door method. The exposure variable is used as a confounder in the front-door method.

Value

Dataframe in a useable format for rsample::bootstraps.

Source

Section 8.3

Examples

# An example can be found in the location identified in the
# source section above at the github site
# https://github.com/FrankLef/FundamentalsCausalInference.

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