cde_tmle: Controlled Direct Effect (CDE) of the Targeted Minimum...

In ainaimi/trimediation: Controlled Direct Effect Calculation

Description

Controlled Direct Effect (CDE) of the Targeted Minimum Loss-based Estimation (TMLE) model.

Usage

cde_tmle(x = NULL, m = NULL, c_xy = NULL, c_my = NULL, y = NULL,
  mX = NULL, mM = NULL, mY = NULL, famX = "gaussian",
  famM = "gaussian", famY = "gaussian", boot = TRUE, sims = 100,
  ci = 0.95)

Arguments

x	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
m	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
c_xy	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
c_my	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
y	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
mX	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
mM	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
mY	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
famX	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
famM	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
famY	: (datatype) Description of structure. What it represents.
boot	: (boolean) A boolean variable that indicates whether a non-parametric bootstrap will be used to calculate confidence intervals
sims	: (positive integer) If boot is TRUE, sims is the number of simulations used to generate the confidence intervals.
ci	: (float) A float between 0 and 1 representing the desired confidence interval to be used for the non-parametric bootstrap.

Value

: (vector) a length-2 list with the CDE with RR-interaction and RD-interaction. If boot is TRUE, it will also return the right and left bounds of the desired confidence interval, ci.

Author(s)

Ashley Naimi [e-mail]

Cantwell Carson [e-mail]

References

Naimi, A. I., Schnitzer, M. E., Moodie, E. E. M., & Bodnar, L. M. (2016). Mediation Analysis for Health Disparities Research. American Journal of Epidemiology, 184(4), 315–324. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwv329

Examples

'examples/cde_example.R'

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