paths - An Imputation Approach to Estimating Path-Specific Causal
Effects
In causal mediation analysis with multiple causally
ordered mediators, a set of path-specific effects are
identified under standard ignorability assumptions. This
package implements an imputation approach to estimating these
effects along with a set of bias formulas for conducting
sensitivity analysis (Zhou and Yamamoto
<doi:10.31235/osf.io/2rx6p>). It contains two main functions:
paths() for estimating path-specific effects and sens() for
conducting sensitivity analysis. Estimation uncertainty is
quantified using the nonparametric bootstrap.