Stochastic approach for mechanistic interaction under longitudinal studies with noninformative right censoring

Characterizing the mechanistic interactions between exposures and diseases is one of the most critical issues in epidemiologic studies. Previous studies have proposed a stochastic sufficient component cause framework, under which each sufficient cause is treated as a stochastic process instead of a time‐invariant random variable. However, different types of mechanistic interactions such as synergism and agonism cannot be further identified. In...