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<p>Mediation analysis seeks to determine whether an independent variable affects a response directly or whether it does so indirectly, by way of a mediator or mediators. Scenarios that assume a single mediation are often overly simplistic, and analyses that include multiple mediators are becoming more common, particularly with the incorporation of high-dimensional data. Surprisingly, however, little attention has been given to multiple mediator and interaction effects. In this article, we propose new methods for testing the null hypothesis of no indirect effect with multiple mediators and interaction effects. We allow the estimators of the path effects to be possibly correlated; we also consider the practice of using confidence intervals to determine whether a mediation effect is zero. We compare the performance of our proposed method with existing methods through extensive simulation studies. Finally, we provide an application to data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.</p>

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Hypothesis tests of indirect effects for multiple mediators

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年1月16日

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  • John Kidd,
  • Annie Green Howard,
  • Heather M. Highland,
  • Penny Gordon-Larsen,
  • Michael Patrick Bancks,
  • Mercedes Carnethon,
  • Dan-Yu Lin

摘要

Mediation analysis seeks to determine whether an independent variable affects a response directly or whether it does so indirectly, by way of a mediator or mediators. Scenarios that assume a single mediation are often overly simplistic, and analyses that include multiple mediators are becoming more common, particularly with the incorporation of high-dimensional data. Surprisingly, however, little attention has been given to multiple mediator and interaction effects. In this article, we propose new methods for testing the null hypothesis of no indirect effect with multiple mediators and interaction effects. We allow the estimators of the path effects to be possibly correlated; we also consider the practice of using confidence intervals to determine whether a mediation effect is zero. We compare the performance of our proposed method with existing methods through extensive simulation studies. Finally, we provide an application to data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.