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Mediation Analysis: When You Want the Mechanism, Not Just the Effect

A practical guide to mediation analysis for clinical researchers. Covers direct and indirect effects, mediator-outcome confounding, treatment-induced confounding, interventional effects, and why most mediator-adjusted regressions are wrong.

2026-04-08·16 min read

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