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    • Epidemiology
    • Health Research Methods

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    • Mediation analysis quantifies indirect effects of exposures on health outcomes.
    • Traditional methods include the difference and product methods.
    • Efficiency comparisons between these methods for key mediation quantities are underexplored.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To compare the asymptotic relative efficiency of the product and difference methods for mediation analysis.
    • To evaluate these methods across different data types (continuous and binary mediators/outcomes).

    Main Methods:

    • Analytical investigation of asymptotic relative efficiency.
    • Numerical studies simulating various data scenarios.
    • Application to the MaxART study data.

    Main Results:

    • Analytically, the product method can be equally or more efficient than the difference method.
    • Numerical results show the difference method is typically at least 90% as efficient as the product method.
    • The difference method is particularly efficient for estimating the mediation proportion in realistic scenarios.

    Conclusions:

    • The difference method offers comparable or slightly lower efficiency than the product method in mediation analysis.
    • The difference method is a robust and efficient choice for estimating mediation proportions in epidemiologic research.
    • Findings aid researchers in selecting appropriate mediation analysis methods.