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Dose-response surfaces used in our simulation to generate the mediator and outcome values. h2,lin and h2,quad include an additive interaction of the 2 components, z1 and z2. The explicit functional forms used to generate these dose-response surfaces are summarized in Section A.2 of the Supplementary Materials.
