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  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology

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  • Causal mediation analysis is crucial for understanding indirect effects of treatments.
  • Identifying mediation effects with causally ordered mediators often requires sensitivity parameters.
  • Existing methods can be complex when dealing with multiple, sequential mediators.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel Bayesian mixed model-based approach for causal mediation analysis.
  • To identify natural direct and indirect effects across all causal pathways, independent of sensitivity parameters.
  • To handle causally ordered multiple mediators in treatment effect analysis.

Main Methods:

  • A Bayesian framework using mixed models to link potential outcomes at different treatment levels.
  • Modeling linear relationships for mediators and outcomes, incorporating mediator-treatment interactions.
  • Performing sensitivity analysis for prior choices within the Bayesian models.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method effectively identifies mediation effects without requiring a specified sensitivity parameter.
  • Demonstrated application in a linear model setting with mediator-treatment interactions.
  • Successfully applied to an adolescent dental health study to analyze socioeconomic status effects on dental caries.

Conclusions:

  • The Bayesian approach offers a robust alternative for causal mediation analysis with ordered mediators.
  • This method simplifies the interpretation of direct and indirect effects in complex causal pathways.
  • Provides valuable insights into health disparities, as shown in the dental health study example.