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	कारण मध्यस्थता विश्लेषण (प्राकृतिक प्रत्यक्ष और अप्रत्यक्ष प्रभाव)	साधारण न्यूनतम वर्ग (OLS) समाश्रयण
क्षेत्र	कारणात्मक अनुमान	अर्थमिति
परिवार	Regression model	Regression model
उद्भव वर्ष	2010	2019
प्रवर्तक	Pearl (2001); general framework by Imai, Keele & Tingley (2010)	Wooldridge (textbook treatment); classical least squares
प्रकार	Counterfactual causal decomposition	Linear regression
मौलिक स्रोत	Pearl, J. (2001). Direct and Indirect Effects. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 411-420.	Wooldridge, J. M. (2019). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (7th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 978-1337558860
उपनाम	natural direct effect, natural indirect effect, NDE / NIE decomposition, counterfactual mediation	ordinary least squares, classical linear regression, linear regression, en küçük kareler regresyonu
संबंधित	5	5
सारांश	Causal mediation analysis is a counterfactual framework that splits a treatment's total effect into a Natural Direct Effect (NDE) and a Natural Indirect Effect (NIE) that runs through a mediator. The modern general approach was formalised by Pearl (2001) and Imai, Keele and Tingley (2010), giving the decomposition a precise causal interpretation.	Ordinary Least Squares is the classical linear regression method that explains a continuous outcome as a linear combination of predictors. It estimates the coefficients by minimising the sum of squared residuals, and under the Gauss-Markov assumptions these estimates are the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE).