paths-package {paths}

paths: An Imputation Approach to Estimating Path-specific Causal Effects

Description

This package implements an imputation approach to estimating path-specific causal effects as detailed in Zhou and Yamamoto (2020). Statistical inference is conducted using the nonparametric bootstrap.

Author(s)

Minh Trinh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [e-mail]; Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [e-mail]; Xiang Zhou, Harvard University, [e-mail]

References

Zhou, Xiang and Teppei Yamamoto. 2020. "Tracing Causal Paths from Experimental and Observational Data".