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  • Causal Inference
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Epidemiology

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  • Causal mediation analysis investigates how exposures influence outcomes through mediators.
  • Multiple ordered mediators present complex pathways and difficult-to-interpret path-specific effects.
  • Traditional methods rely on unverifiable assumptions for identifying path-specific effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a framework of separable path-specific effects for multiple ordered mediators.
  • To provide a more intuitive and interpretable approach to causal mediation analysis.
  • To address limitations of traditional methods regarding assumption verifiability.

Main Methods:

  • Extends the separable effect method to multiple ordered mediators.
  • Utilizes the finest fully randomized causally interpretable structured tree graph (FFRCISTG) model.
  • Compares separable path-specific effects with traditional path-specific effects.

Main Results:

  • Separable path-specific effects are interpretable as causal effects of separated components.
  • Equivalence between separable and traditional effects is shown under individual-level isolation assumptions.
  • Separable effects remain identifiable under population-level isolation assumptions within the FFRCISTG model.

Conclusions:

  • The separable path-specific effects framework offers a more verifiable and interpretable approach for causal multiple mediation analysis.
  • This method allows for assumption verification in future experiments, unlike traditional approaches.
  • The framework can detect assumption violations like intermediate confounding and incorrect causal order.