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Bayesian Mediation Analysis with an Application to Explore Racial Disparities in the Diagnostic Age of Breast Cancer.

Wentao Cao, Joseph Hagan, Qingzhao Yu

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3 authors.

Wentao CaoLouisiana Department of Education, 1201 N 3rd St, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, USA.
Joseph HaganDepartment of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plz, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3285-2131
Qingzhao YuSchool of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health-New Orleans, 3rd Floor, 2020 Graviers Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8194-0798

Funding

Role of microbiota in increased influenza severity due to particulate matter exposureP42ES013648 · NIEHS · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · PI LOMNICKI, SLAWO M · 2009 to 2024
$27.6M
Interactions between ES-miRNAs and environmental risk factors are responsible for TNBC progression and associated racial health disparities: a novel analysis with multilevel moderation inferencesR01CA275089 · NCI · LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER · PI Yaguang Xi, Qingzhao Yu · 2023 to 2026
$1.3M
Trends of disparities in breast cancer progression and health care considering multilevel risk factorsR15MD012387 · NIMHD · LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER · PI YU, QINGZHAO · 2017 to 2023
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA275089NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES013648NIMHD NIH HHS R15 MD012387
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Abstract

A mediation effect refers to the effect transmitted by a mediator intervening in the relationship between an exposure variable and a response variable. Mediation analysis is widely used to identify significant mediators and to make inferences on their effects. The Bayesian method allows researchers to incorporate prior information from previous knowledge into the analysis, deal with the hierarchical structure of variables, and estimate the quantities of interest from the posterior distributions. This paper proposes three Bayesian mediation analysis methods to make inferences on mediation effects. Our proposed methods are the following: (1) the function of coefficients method; (2) the product of partial difference method; and (3) the re-sampling method. We apply these three methods to explore racial disparities in the diagnostic age of breast cancer patients in Louisiana. We found that African American (AA) patients are diagnosed at an average of 4.37 years younger compared with Caucasian (CA) patients (57.40 versus 61.77,

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Bayesian mediation analysis methodsbreast cancermediation effect

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PMID39896235
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