Qualitative evaluation of associations by the transitivity of the association signs

DOI10.5705/SS.2013.095zbMATH Open1415.62042arXiv1405.4258OpenAlexW2321582935MaRDI QIDQ2950206FDOQ2950206

Authors: Zhicao Jiang, Peng Ding, Zhi Geng 

Publication date: 8 October 2015

Published in: STATISTICA SINICA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We say that the signs of association measures among three variables {X, Y, Z} are transitive if a positive association measure between the variable X and the intermediate variable Y and further a positive association measure between Y and the endpoint variable Z imply a positive association measure between X and Z. We introduce four association measures with different stringencies, and discuss conditions for the transitivity of the signs of these association measures. When the variables follow exponential family distributions, the conditions become simpler and more interpretable. Applying our results to two data sets from an observational study and a randomized experiment, we demonstrate that the results can help us to draw conclusions about the signs of the association measures between X and Z based only on two separate studies about {X, Y} and {Y, Z}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4258

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zbMATH Keywords

causal inferenceassociation measuresurrogate endpointYule-Simpson paradoxPrentice's criterion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate analysis (62H99) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20)

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