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. 2019 May 30;29(4):1081–1111. doi: 10.1177/0962280219851817

Table 2.

The results of running BayesMR on data generated from the model in Figure 14 for various degrees of nonlinearity, as parametrized by A (lower A corresponds to stronger nonlinearity).

βXY
A Q1 Median Mean Q3 p(MXY|D)
0.5 0.260 0.289 0.276 0.309 (0.744,0.880)
1 0.494 0.511 0.500 0.530 (0.817,0.919)
2 0.739 0.758 0.737 0.786 (0.821,0.921)
4 0.906 0.921 0.927 0.940 (0.780,0.900)
8 0.970 0.985 0.992 1.003 (0.815,0.918)
16 0.990 1.006 1.011 1.025 (0.776,0.899)
32 0.991 1.009 0.996 1.028 (0.827,0.924)

Note: We report the 95% CI for the estimated probability that the direction of the causal link is XY, as opposed to YX. For the causal effect estimate βXY, we report summary measures, including the first (Q1) and third quartiles (Q3).