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A causal-mediation assumption that treatment and mediator assignments are conditionally independent of potential outcomes given measured covariates and treatment.
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Use in methods writing when explaining what a mediation claim requires.Name the identifying assumption behind a causal mediation estimate.
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- assume sequential ignorability
- sequential ignorability assumption
- sensitivity to sequential ignorability
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The authors defended sequential ignorability before interpreting the estimated indirect effect.
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- sequential ignorability
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A strong, generally untestable mediation assumption; it rules out unmeasured confounding for treatment and mediator relations under specified covariates.
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