Direct and Indirect Effects of Sequential Treatments
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چکیده
In this paper we review the notion of direct and indirect causal effect as introduced by Pearl (2001). We show how it can be formulated without counterfactuals, using regime indicators instead. This allows to consider the natural (in)direct effect as a special case of sequential treatments discussed by Dawid & Didelez (2005) which immediately yields conditions for identifiability as well as a graphical way of checking identifiability.
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