Title
Examining the role of unmeasured confounding in mediation analysis with genetic and genomic applications.
Abstract
Umediation is a flexible R package that examines the role of unmeasured confounding in mediation analysis allowing for normally distributed or Bernoulli distributed exposures, outcomes, mediators, measured confounders, and unmeasured confounders. Umediation also accommodates multiple measured confounders, multiple unmeasured confounders, and allows for a mediator-exposure interaction on the outcome. Umediation is available as an R package at https://github.com/SharonLutz/Umediation A tutorial on how to install and use the Umediation package is available in the Additional file 1.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1186/s12859-017-1749-y
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Direct effects,Mediated effects,Mediation analysis,Population stratification,Unmeasured confounding
Econometrics,Data mining,Confounding,Mediation (statistics),Biology,Genetic epidemiology,Genome-wide association study,Confounding Factors (Epidemiology),Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies),Population stratification,Bioinformatics,R package
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
8