### Mediator model Call: lm(formula = bili ~ trt + age + male + stage, data = data) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -4.1854 -2.5979 -1.2638 0.5727 24.2813 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) -2.54577 1.76354 -1.444 0.150018 trt 0.60723 0.54646 1.111 0.267464 age 0.02419 0.02706 0.894 0.372025 male -0.61583 0.84467 -0.729 0.466584 stage 1.26164 0.32279 3.909 0.000117 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 4.472 on 271 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.06893, Adjusted R-squared: 0.05518 F-statistic: 5.016 on 4 and 271 DF, p-value: 0.0006483 ### Outcome model Call: glm(formula = platelet ~ trt + bili + age + male + stage, family = poisson(link = "log"), data = data) Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) (Intercept) 5.9420020 0.0242336 245.196 < 2e-16 *** trt 0.0298471 0.0075749 3.940 8.14e-05 *** bili -0.0018395 0.0008569 -2.147 0.0318 * age -0.0031667 0.0003753 -8.438 < 2e-16 *** male -0.0740428 0.0121096 -6.114 9.69e-10 *** stage -0.0825191 0.0045178 -18.265 < 2e-16 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 (Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1) Null deviance: 9286.7 on 275 degrees of freedom Residual deviance: 8669.8 on 270 degrees of freedom AIC: 10706 Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 4 ### Mediation analysis est se Z p lower upper cde 0.035816548 0.009089923 3.9402475 8.139758e-05 0.018000626 0.053632471 pnde 0.035816548 0.009089923 3.9402475 8.139758e-05 0.018000626 0.053632471 tnie -0.001340405 0.001358299 -0.9868257 3.237281e-01 -0.004002622 0.001321813 tnde 0.035816548 0.009089923 3.9402475 8.139758e-05 0.018000626 0.053632471 pnie -0.001340405 0.001358299 -0.9868257 3.237281e-01 -0.004002622 0.001321813 te 0.034476143 0.009147617 3.7688661 1.639908e-04 0.016547144 0.052405143 pm -0.039579769 0.042590551 -0.9293087 3.527291e-01 -0.123055715 0.043896176 exp(est) exp(lower) exp(upper) cde 1.0364657 1.0181636 1.055097 pnde 1.0364657 1.0181636 1.055097 tnie 0.9986605 0.9960054 1.001323 tnde 1.0364657 1.0181636 1.055097 pnie 0.9986605 0.9960054 1.001323 te 1.0350773 1.0166848 1.053803 pm NA 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: age male stage c_cond (covariate vector value) = 50 1 2 Note that effect estimates do not vary over m_cde and c_cond values when interaction = FALSE. ### Re-evaluation at c_cond = cmean est se Z p lower upper cde 0.035816548 0.009089923 3.9402475 8.139758e-05 0.018000626 0.053632471 pnde 0.035816548 0.009089923 3.9402475 8.139758e-05 0.018000626 0.053632471 tnie -0.001340405 0.001358299 -0.9868257 3.237281e-01 -0.004002622 0.001321813 tnde 0.035816548 0.009089923 3.9402475 8.139758e-05 0.018000626 0.053632471 pnie -0.001340405 0.001358299 -0.9868257 3.237281e-01 -0.004002622 0.001321813 te 0.034476143 0.009147617 3.7688661 1.639908e-04 0.016547144 0.052405143 pm -0.039579769 0.042590551 -0.9293087 3.527291e-01 -0.123055715 0.043896176 exp(est) exp(lower) exp(upper) cde 1.0364657 1.0181636 1.055097 pnde 1.0364657 1.0181636 1.055097 tnie 0.9986605 0.9960054 1.001323 tnde 1.0364657 1.0181636 1.055097 pnie 0.9986605 0.9960054 1.001323 te 1.0350773 1.0166848 1.053803 pm NA NA NA