I am very pleased to announce that Dustin Tingley, Teppei Yamamoto, Kentaro Hirose, Luke Keele, and Kosuke Imai are the winners of the Society for Political Methodology’s 2015 Statistical Software Award for the R package “mediation”. Please join me in congratulating them on this prestigious honor.
The citation from the award committee (Mike Ward (chair), Matt Blackwell, and Alex Tahk) is the following:
Many social scientists are increasingly interested in identifying the role of particular causal mechanisms. Recent work on causal mediation analysis has developed a new set of procedures for identifying causal mechanisms using minimal assumptions within the potential outcomes framework \citep{mediate1,mediate2,mediate3,mediate4}. The ``mediation'' R package, described in ``mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis,'' ({\em Journal of Statistical Software} 2014: Dustin Tingley, Harvard; Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kentaro Hirose, Princeton; Luke Keele, Pennsylvania State University; and Kosuke Imai, Princeton), provides an extensive set of tools for performing this analysis. This software allows users to investigate different causal mechanisms while employing different types of data and statistical models, to explore the effect of relaxing identification assumptions, and to examine model-based inference as well as design-based inference, embracing both observational as well as experimental research. A wide range of mediator models may be used, including generalized linear models, ordered categorical models, generalized additive models, quantile regression models, and survival models. To probe the robustness of results to violations of the causal assumptions, the package also implements sensitivity analysis. The R package is available via CRAN and is widely used.
Please join me in thanking the award committee as well as the many individuals who submitted nominations for this award.
@article{mediate1,
author = "Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto and Kentaro Hirose and Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai",
title = "mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis",
journal = "Journal of Statistical Software",
volume = "59",
number = "5",
pages = "1-38",
day = "2",
month = "9",
year = "2014",
CODEN = "JSSOBK",
ISSN = "1548-7660",
bibdate = "2014-04-17",
URL = "http://www.jstatsoft.org/v59/i05",
accepted = "2014-04-17",
acknowledgement = "",
keywords = "",
submitted = "2012-06-04",
}
@article{mediate2,
title={A General Approach to Causal Mediation Analysis},
author={Imai, Kosuke and Keele, Luke and Tingley, Dustin},
journal={Psychological Methods},
volume={15},
number={4},
pages={309--334},
year={2010},
publisher={American Psychological Association}
}
@article{mediate3,
title={Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies},
author={Imai, Kosuke and Keele, Luke and Tingley, Dustin and Yamamoto, Teppei},
journal={American Political Science Review},
volume={105},
number={04},
pages={765--789},
year={2011},
publisher={Cambridge University Press}
}
@incollection{mediate4,
title={Causal Mediation Analysis using {R}},
author={Imai, Kosuke and Keele, Luke and Tingley, Dustin and Yamamoto, Teppei},
booktitle={Advances in Social Science Research using {R}},
editor={Hrishikesh D. Vinod}
pages={129--154},
year={2010},
publisher={Springer}
}
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Kevin Quinn
Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
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University of California, Berkeley
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