Keil et al. Respond to “Causal Inference for Environmental Mixtures”

We thank Dr. Zigler for writing an insightful commentary (1) that nicely summarizes appealing aspects of our work and offers helpful criticism. We had raised many of the points ourselves in our article (2) and appreciate the opportunity to more fully address others. We used a Bayesian approach to estimate a joint effect of airborne metals exposure on infant birth weight that reflects a useful public health question: Would decommissioning...