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Four Types of Effect Modification: A Classification Based on Directed Acyclic Graphs
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It is possible to classify the types of causal relationships that can give rise to effect modification on the risk difference scale by expressing the conditional causal risk-difference as a sum of products of stratum-specific risk differences and conditional probabilities. Directed acyclic graphs clarify the causal relationships necessary for a particular variable to serve as an effect modifier for the causal risk difference involving 2 other variables. The directed acyclic graph causal framework thereby gives rise to a 4-fold classification for effect modification: direct effect modification, indirect effect modification, effect modification by proxy and effect modification by a common cause. We briefly discuss the case of multiple effect modification relationships and multiple effect modifiers as well as measures of effect other than that of the causal risk difference.
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Metadata
- Authors
- VanderWeele, T. J., & Robins, J. M.
- Venue
- Epidemiology
- Published
- 2007-09
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 561-568
- ISSN
- 1044-3983 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2075200608
- Cited by
- 205
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 6.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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