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  • Statistics
  • Biostatistics
  • Genomics

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  • High-dimensional mediation analysis faces challenges in identifying individual mediator significance due to the super-exponential number of potential pathways.
  • Existing methods often assume conditional independence of mediators or ignore their interrelationships, limiting their applicability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel hypothesis testing procedure for evaluating individual mediation effects in high-dimensional settings.
  • To account for potential interactions among mediators, extending the scope of current mediation analysis techniques.

Main Methods:

  • A hypothesis testing procedure utilizing Boolean matrices to construct a test statistic.
  • Incorporation of screening, data splitting, and decorrelated estimation to enhance test performance.
  • Establishment of the limiting distribution under the null hypothesis for robust inference.

Main Results:

  • The proposed test controls both asymptotic size and false discovery rate.
  • Achieves power approaching one as the number of mediators diverges with sample size.
  • Demonstrated efficacy through simulations and a neuroimaging study on Alzheimer's disease.

Conclusions:

  • The novel procedure effectively evaluates individual mediation effects in high-dimensional data with mediator interactions.
  • Offers improved statistical power and control over error rates compared to existing methods.
  • Provides a valuable tool for complex mediation analysis in various scientific fields.