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Table 6 Results of the analysis on the Add Health data, investigating the effects of breastfeeding on BMI through smoking. For each wave, estimates of SDE and SIE and the corresponding standard errors and confidence intervals are reported, based on 500 bootstrap replications

From: Longitudinal mediation analysis with multilevel and latent growth models: a separable effects causal approach

Wave

SDE

SIE

Prop. Mediated

1

-0.765 (0.126)

-0.011 (0.005)

0.014

(-0.999, -0.516)

(-0.022, -0.002)

2

-0.930 (0.153)

-0.030 (0.012)

0.031

(-1.218, -0.626)

(-0.054, -0.008)

3

-0.943 (0.155)

-0.032 (0.013)

0.033

(-1.233, -0.639)

(-0.058, -0.007)

4

-0.979 (0.162)

-0.032 (0.014)

0.032

(-1.277, -0.658)

(-0.061, -0.006)

  1. The last column reports the proportion mediated, obtained as the ratio of the SIE and the total effect, SDE+SIE