A Zero-Inflated Beta Mixture Model for Marginal Mediation Analysis with Compositional Microbiome Mediators
用于组成型微生物组中介变量边际中介分析的零膨胀贝塔混合模型
The role of the microbiome in disease pathogenesis is an emerging field with strong evidence suggesting that dysbiosis is associated with precancerous and cancerous states. Microbiome data present substantial challenges for causal mediation analysis due to sparsity, compositional constraints, and latent heterogeneity. To address these issues, we propose a zero-inflated beta mixture (ZIBM) method for mediation analysis with compositional microbiome mediators. The proposed…