ds.test.TMint: Significance Test for Treatment-Mediator Interaction in...

In datashield/dsMediationClient: DataSHIELD Client side Mediation Analysis Functions

Significance Test for Treatment-Mediator Interaction in Causal Mediation Analysis

Description

This function is similar to R function test.TMint from the mediation package.

Usage

ds.test.TMint(x = NULL, conf.level = NULL, datasources = NULL)

Arguments

x	the name of the output of the ds.mediate function saved at each server.
conf.level	the level of the returned two-sided confidence intervals for the effect differences. By default it is set to the value used in the original mediate call.
datasources	a list of DSConnection-class objects obtained after login. If the datasources argument is not specified the default set of connections will be used: see datashield.connections_default.

Details

The function 'test.TMint' is used to test whether the average causal mediation effects and direct effects are significantly different between the treatment and control conditions.

Value

an object of class "htest" when applied to a mediate object. See t.test for more explanations of the contents. The function returns an object of class "htest.order" which has its own print method included in this package.

Author(s)

Demetris Avraam, for DataSHIELD Development Team

datashield/dsMediationClient documentation built on June 15, 2022, 12:19 p.m.