Explanation in Causal Inference: Methods for Mediation and Interaction

The book provides an accessible but comprehensive overview of methods for mediation and interaction.There has been considerable and rapid methodological development on mediation and moderation/interaction analysis within the causal-inference literature over the last ten years.Much of this material appears in a variety of specialized journals, and some of the papers are quite technical.There has also been considerable interest in these developments from empirical researchers in the social and biomedical sciences.However, much of the material is not currently in a format that is accessible to them.The book closes these gaps by providing an accessible, comprehensive, book-length coverage of mediation.The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to mediation analysis, including chapters on concepts for mediation, regression-based methods, sensitivity analysis, time-to-event outcomes, methods for multiple mediators, methods for time-varying mediation and longitudinal data, and relation