Rsq.measure: Function to calculate the Rsq function as a total mediation...

In RsqMed: Total Mediation Effect Size Measure (R-Squared Measure) under Moderate or High-Dimensional Mediator Settings

Description

Function to calculate the Rsq function as a total mediation effect size measure (Gaussian outcome only). If method='iSIS', a two-step procedure is performed, where the first step filters the non-mediators based on part of the data and the second step calculates the point estimates for Rsq using random-effect models on the remaining data. If method='ALL', Rsq is calculated based on all subjects and variables.

Usage

Rsq.measure(p = 1/2, outcome, med, covar, indp, method = c("iSIS",
  "ALL"), iter.max = 10, nsis = NULL, init.cutoff = 0.1,
  screening = FALSE)

Arguments

p	Proportion of the training dataset for selecting mediators regarding the whole dataset, default is set as 1/2. If method='ALL', keep p at default.
outcome	Vector of outcome type of interest; Only Gaussian distributed outcome is accepted.
med	Matrix of putative mediators
covar	Covariate matrix
indp	Vector of the independent variable of interest, e.g. environmental variable
method	Method used to screen out non-mediators. When no variable selection is required, method='ALL'; otherwise, iterative sure independence screening (SIS) is used for variable selection, i.e., method='iSIS'. Note that when method='ALL', no screening is performed, i.e., the Rsq measure is calculated on all data and all variables included.
iter.max	Maximum number of iteration used in iSIS, default=10 (please refer the SIS package for detail explanation)
nsis	Number of variables recruited by iterative SIS
init.cutoff	The percentage of mediators remaining after the screening step.
screening	T if filtering mediators based on the strength of independent variable and mediators as a preprocessing step; F if all putative mediators are included, default=F.

Value

Output vector consist of Rsq mediated(Rsq.mediated), shared over simple effects (SOS), number of selected mediators (pab), and the Rsq that used to calculate the Rsq measure: variance of outcome explained by mediator (Rsq.YM), variance of outcome explained by the independent variable (Rsq.YX), and variance of outcome explained by mediator and independent variable (Rsq.YMX), n is the sample size based on which the random effect models are fitted.

Name of selected mediators (select)

Examples

{
#\donttest{
data(example)
attach(example)
Rsq.measure(p=1/2, outcome=Y, med=M,covar=Cov,indp=X,method='iSIS', iter.max=1)
#}
}

RsqMed documentation built on Feb. 2, 2020, 5:06 p.m.