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July 29, 2026Psychological Methods

Leveraging lavaan for iterated conditional expectations: A streamlined parametric g-formula.

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This tutorial demonstrates a streamlined parametric g-formula using iterated conditional expectations for effective causal analysis in longitudinal studies.

Key Points

  • The aim is to present an accessible method for implementing parametric g-formula using iterated conditional expectations to improve causal inference in longitudinal designs.
  • Introduced the iterated conditional expectation (ICE) variant of parametric g-formula.
  • Showed how to use regression models for mean outcomes across time points with lavaan in R.
  • Provided a running example illustrating social exclusion's effect on depression.
  • ICE demonstrated reduced susceptibility to model misspecification biases compared to traditional methods.
  • A doubly robust version of ICE offers additional protection against biases from incorrectly specified outcome models.
  • Parametric g-formula using ICE was shown to be computationally efficient and user-friendly.

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Wen Wei Loh (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a69a2f1c8da07d9defa70e4https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000844
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