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  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Causal Inference

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  • Semi-competing risks data present challenges in analyzing outcomes when an intermediate event can be censored by a primary event.
  • Existing methods may lack clear causal interpretation for the effects of exposures or treatments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel nonparametric causal mediation framework for semi-competing risks.
  • To define and estimate direct and indirect effects of an exposure on a primary event, mediated by an intermediate event.

Main Methods:

  • Casting the semi-competing risks problem within causal mediation modeling.
  • Developing a nonparametric estimator with time-varying weights for direct and indirect effects.
  • Defining the primary event's counting process and compensator conditional on the intermediate event status.

Main Results:

  • The proposed estimator for direct and indirect effects is shown to be a zero-mean martingale.
  • Theoretical properties of the estimators are established.
  • Simulation studies demonstrate the method's finite sample performance.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed causal mediation approach provides a robust framework for semi-competing risks.
  • This method enhances causal interpretation compared to existing statistical techniques.
  • The approach is validated through simulations and a hepatitis study example.