Inference functionalities for distributed-lag linear structural equation models (DLSEMs). DLSEMs were recently proposed by Magrini et al. (2016) as an extension of linear structural causal models (Pearl, 2000, Chpater 5), where each factor of the joint probability distribution is a distributed-lag linear regression with constrained lag shapes (Judge et al., 1985, Chapters 9-10). DLSEMs account for temporal delays in the dependence relationships among the variables and allow to assess causal effects at different time lags. Endpoint-constrained quadratic, quadratic decreasing and gamma lag shapes are available. The main functions of the package are:
| Package: | dlsem |
| Type: | Package |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Date: | 2017-12-05 |
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