[Mediation-information] X continous

[Kosuke Imai]

Hi Jaques,

  Do you mean "treatment" by "X"?  If so, yes, the reasoning is directly applicable to a continuous treatment: just think of a comparison of two different values of the treatment. 

Best,
Kosuke

Department of Politics
Princeton University
http://imai.princeton.edu

On Jun 6, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Jacques Juhel wrote:

> Dear Colleague,
> I have read with very much interest your paper entitled "Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning about
> Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies". Do you think that the same line of reasoning  is applicable to the case where X is continuous?
> Thank you very much in advance for answering.
> Best.
> Jacques
> http://perso.univ-rennes2.fr/jacques.juhel