Causality, Mediation and Time: A Dynamic Viewpoint
Causality, Mediation and Time: A Dynamic Viewpoint
Summary Time dynamics are often ignored in causal modelling. Clearly, causality must operate in time and we show how this corresponds to a mechanistic, or system, understanding of causality. The established counterfactual definitions of direct and indirect effects depend on an ability to manipulate the mediator which may not hold …