Erratum: Definition and Interpretation of Separable Path-specific Effects With Multiple Ordered Mediators
Yanlin Chen, Sheng‐Hsuan Lin · Epidemiology · 2025
In the September 2025 issue of Epidemiology, the article by Chen and Lin1 contained errors in the math notation due to a typesetting error. The vertical bar symbol and independence symbol were missing from several equations throughout. The corrected versions are as follows: - Incorrect version Correct version A ⫫ M 1 (a′) ⫫ M 2 (a′′,m 1) ⫫ Y (a′′′,m 1,m 2) C A ⫫ M 1 (a′) ⫫ M 2 (a′′,m 1) ⫫ Y (a′′′,m 1,m 2)|C A ⫫ M 1 (a) ⫫ M 2 (a, m 1) ⫫ Y (a, m 1, m 2) C A ⫫ M 1 (a) ⫫ M 2 (a, m 1) ⫫ Y (a, m 1, m 2)|C A ⫫ (M 1 (a), M 2 (a), Y (a)) C A ⫫ (M 1 (a), M2 (a), Y (a))|C A (M 1 (a), M 2 (a), Y (a)) C A ⫫ (M 1 (a), M 2 (a), Y (a))|C Y ⫫ (A 1 ,A 2 ) A Y , M 1 , M 2 , C Y ⫫ (A 1 ,A 2 ) | A Y , M 1 , M 2 , C M 2 ⫫ (A Y , A 1 ) A 2 , M 1 , C M 2 ⫫ (A Y , A 1 ) | A 2 , M 1 , C M 1 ⫫ (A Y , A 2 ) A 1 , C M 1 ⫫ (A Y , A 2 ) | A 1 , C These have been corrected in the online version of the article.