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Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs

AMAri M. LipskySGSander Greenland

Emek Medical Center · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · +1 more institution

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Abstract

This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods discusses the basics of causal directed acyclic graphs, which are useful tools for communicating researchers’ understanding of the potential interplay among variables and are commonly used for mediation analysis.

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Keywords
  • Directed acyclic graph
  • Medicine
  • Mediation
  • Causal analysis
  • Risk analysis (engineering)
  • Algorithm
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