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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2017 Aug 8;36(27):4243–4265. doi: 10.1002/sim.7430

Table 1.

Expressions for direct, indirect and average causal effects

E[NDE(0)]: E[T(1, S(0)) − T(0, S(0))] = β1 + α0β4
E[NDE(1)]: E[T(1, S(1)) − T(0, S(1))] = β1 + β4(α0 + α1)
E[NIE(0)]: E[T(0, S(1)) − T(0, S(0))] = α1β2
E[NIE(1)]: E[T(1, S(1)) − T(1, S(0))] = α1(β2 + β4)
E[TE]: E[T(1, S(1)) − T(0, S(0))] = β1 + β2α1 + β4(α0 + α1)