Mixture Methods in Environmental
& Biomedical Research
BKMR · qgcomp · WQS · PCA · Elastic
Net · LASSO
Full 40-Minute Talk
Motivation & Context
• Goal: Overview of mixture methods for multi-exposure inference & prediction
• Context: Environmental/biomedical exposome, diet, omics, air pollution
• Challenges: Collinearity, nonlinearity, interactions, confounding
Notation & Setup
• Observations: outcome Y, exposures X1...Xp, covariates C
• Targets: overall mixture effect, partial effects, interactions, prediction
• Causal estimand example: E[Y | do(X=x)] - E[Y | do(X=x0)]