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title: 'ria.test: Testing Equality of Natural Mediation Effects and Their Randomized
  Interventional Analogues'
version: 0.2.1
abstract: Implements the empirical test introduced by Yu, Ge, and Elwert (2026) for
  detecting when randomized interventional analogues should not be interpreted as
  natural mediation effects. The package estimates natural effects, their randomized
  interventional analogues, and TE - TE^R, the difference between the total effect
  and its randomized interventional analogue. Rejecting TE - TE^R = 0 falsifies the
  composite null that the natural indirect and direct effects equal their randomized
  interventional analogues. The procedure remains valid in settings where the natural
  effects themselves are not identified, and |TE - TE^R| provides a lower bound on
  the total divergence between the natural and randomized interventional decompositions.
authors:
- family-names: Yu
  given-names: Ang
  email: ang_yu@outlook.com
- family-names: Williams
  given-names: Nicholas
  email: ntwilliams.personal@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1378-4831
- family-names: Díaz
  given-names: Iván
  email: ivan.diaz@nyulangone.org
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9056-2047
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ang-yu/ria.test
commit: 7cf5ccd15594748a653e9009f72652d5589df573
url: https://github.com/ang-yu/ria.test
date-released: '2026-07-21'
contact:
- family-names: Yu
  given-names: Ang
  email: ang_yu@outlook.com