topic Re: MLE in causalmed in Statistical Procedures

MLE in causalmed

zartash — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 10:44:51 GMT

why does SAS causalmed uses maximum likelihood estimation for model parameters. Is this based on some studies. please provide references

Re: MLE in causalmed

PGStats — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 19:38:30 GMT

SAS provides 13 references. Are you looking for references not provided in the procedure documentation?

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=statug&docsetVersion=14.3&docsetTarget=statug_causalmed_references.htm&locale=en

Re: MLE in causalmed

zartash — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 04:23:11 GMT

I want to ask why SAS use maximum likelihood for model estimation. Why not
OLS. Or any other technique. I need reference for using maximum likelihood
estimation in causal mediation analysis.