On optimal two-stage testing of multiple mediators

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Abstract

Mediation analysis in high-dimensional settings often involves identifying potential mediators among a large number of measured variables. For this purpose, a two-step familywise error rate procedure called ScreenMin has been recently proposed. In ScreenMin, variables are first screened and only those that pass the screening are tested. The proposed data-independent threshold for selection has been shown to guarantee asymptotic familywise error rate. In this work, we investigate the impact of the threshold on the finite-sample familywise error rate. We derive a power maximizing threshold and show that it is well approximated by an adaptive threshold of Wang et al. (2016, arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03330). We illustrate the investigated procedures on a case-control study examining the effect of fish intake on the risk of colorectal adenoma. We also apply our procedure in the context of replicability analysis to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) associated with crop yield in two distinct environments.

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Djordjilović, V., Hemerik, J., & Thoresen, M. (2022). On optimal two-stage testing of multiple mediators. Biometrical Journal, 64(6), 1090–1108. https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.202100190

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