Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34898761›Full record

ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association2021

Bayesian Factor Analysis for Inference on Interactions.

Federico Ferrari, David B Dunson

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Workflow for Statistical Analysis of Environmental Mixtures.Environmental health perspectives · 2026
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Bayesian Transfer Learning.Statistical science : a review journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics · 2025
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Environmental Mixtures Analysis (E-MIX) Workflow and Methods Repository.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
    Article
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Environmental health perspectives · 2023
    Article
  19. Article
  20. Semi-supervised empirical Bayes group-regularized factor regression.Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Federico FerrariDepartment of Statistical Science, Duke University.
David B DunsonDepartment of Statistical Science, Duke University.

Funding

Structured nonparametric methods for mixtures of exposuresR01ES028804 · NIEHS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI DUNSON, DAVID BRIAN · 2018 to 2021
$2.2M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES028804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article is motivated by the problem of inference on interactions among chemical exposures impacting human health outcomes. Chemicals often co-occur in the environment or in synthetic mixtures and as a result exposure levels can be highly correlated. We propose a latent factor joint model, which includes shared factors in both the predictor and response components while assuming conditional independence. By including a quadratic regression in the latent variables in the response component, we induce flexible dimension reduction in characterizing main effects and interactions. We propose a Bayesian approach to inference under this Factor analysis for INteractions (FIN) framework. Through appropriate modifications of the factor modeling structure, FIN can accommodate higher order interactions. We evaluate the performance using a simulation study and data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Code is available on GitHub.

Indexed as

Bayesian ModelingChemical MixturesCorrelated ExposuresQuadratic regressionStatistical Interactions

Identifiers

PMID34898761
PMCPMC8654343

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.