What The Association Is Within Each Subgroup
Use split.by when you want the same association reported separately within subgroups.
- descriptive subgroup estimates
- not a formal test that subgroup effects differ
stratified <- associate$regression(
data,
outcome = demented,
predictors = PRS,
covariates = c(age, PCA),
split.by = sex
)What comes back
A PolyGeniusAssociations object using the fitted model schema, with subgroup membership recorded in stratum.
Plotting
visualize$associations$forest(stratified) visualize$associations$heatmap(stratified)