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R: Summarizing Output from Design Based Mediation Analysis

summary.mediate.design

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Summarizing Output from Design Based Mediation Analysis

Description

Function to report results from design based mediation analysis. Reported categories differ depending on the design and assumptions used.

Usage


  ## S3 method for class 'mediate.design'
summary(object, ...)

  ## S3 method for class 'summary.mediate.design'
print(x, ...)

Arguments

`object`	object of class `mediate.design`, typically output from a function for design-based mediation analysis (such as `mediate.sed`).
`x`	output from the summary function.
`...`	additional arguments affecting the summary produced.

Author(s)

Dustin Tingley, Harvard University, dtingley@gov.harvard.edu; Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teppei@mit.edu.

References

Tingley, D., Yamamoto, T., Hirose, K., Imai, K. and Keele, L. (2014). "mediation: R package for Causal Mediation Analysis", Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 1-38.

Imai, K., Tingley, D. and Yamamoto, T. (2012) Experimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanisms. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society)

Imai, K., Keele, L., Tingley, D. and Yamamoto, T. (2011). Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies, American Political Science Review, Vol. 105, No. 4 (November), pp. 765-789.

Imai, K., Keele, L. and Yamamoto, T. (2010) Identification, Inference, and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effects, Statistical Science, Vol. 25, No. 1 (February), pp. 51-71.

Imai, K., Keele, L., Tingley, D. and Yamamoto, T. (2009) "Causal Mediation Analysis Using R" in Advances in Social Science Research Using R, ed. H. D. Vinod New York: Springer.