### Mediator model Call: lm(formula = bili ~ trt, data = data) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -3.4000 -2.5000 -1.7000 0.4434 24.3000 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 2.2132 0.8784 2.520 0.0123 * trt 0.7434 0.5532 1.344 0.1801 --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 4.594 on 274 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.006548, Adjusted R-squared: 0.002923 F-statistic: 1.806 on 1 and 274 DF, p-value: 0.1801 ### Outcome model Call: glm(formula = spiders ~ trt + bili, family = poisson(link = "log"), data = data) Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) (Intercept) -1.31796 0.28845 -4.569 4.90e-06 *** trt -0.11479 0.18729 -0.613 0.54 bili 0.06061 0.01253 4.836 1.33e-06 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 (Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1) Null deviance: 198.14 on 275 degrees of freedom Residual deviance: 187.85 on 273 degrees of freedom AIC: 353.85 Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 5 ### Mediation analysis est se Z p lower upper exp(est) cde -0.13775153 0.2247503 -0.6129092 0.5399364 -0.57825405 0.3027510 0.8713152 pnde -0.13775153 0.2247503 -0.6129092 0.5399364 -0.57825405 0.3027510 0.8713152 tnie 0.05406559 0.0417549 1.2948322 0.1953781 -0.02777251 0.1359037 1.0555538 tnde -0.13775153 0.2247503 -0.6129092 0.5399364 -0.57825405 0.3027510 0.8713152 pnie 0.05406559 0.0417549 1.2948322 0.1953781 -0.02777251 0.1359037 1.0555538 te -0.08368595 0.2264461 -0.3695624 0.7117086 -0.52751206 0.3601402 0.9197201 pm -0.60295125 1.8172532 -0.3317926 0.7400458 -4.16470205 2.9587996 NA exp(lower) exp(upper) cde 0.5608768 1.353577 pnde 0.5608768 1.353577 tnie 0.9726096 1.145572 tnde 0.5608768 1.353577 pnie 0.9726096 1.145572 te 0.5900712 1.433530 pm NA NA Evaluated at: avar: trt a1 (intervened value of avar) = 2.3 a0 (reference value of avar) = 1.1 mvar: bili m_cde (intervend value of mvar for cde) = 1.4 cvar: c_cond (covariate vector value) = Note that effect estimates do not vary over m_cde and c_cond values when interaction = FALSE.