Causal Mediation and Interaction

Harvard HSPH

The course will approach concepts and methods for mediation and interaction from the perspective of the counterfactual framework. The first part of the course will be concerned with mediation analysis, that is, assessing the extent to which the effect of an exposure on some outcome is mediated through a particular intermediate and the extent to which it is direct or through other pathways. Definitions, theoretical identification results, and statistical techniques related to…