Mediation Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Sage
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781412925693
Subjects: Research methods: general; Social Science; Sociology; Probability & Statistics - General; Research; Social Science / Research; Mathematical models; Regression analysis; Social sciences; Structural equation modeling
Description: "This book covers mediation analysis--the examination of whether an effect of one variable on another is direct or indirect or both. Author Dawn Iacobucci offers thorough coverage of introductory and advanced material as well as conceptual and statistical information. The book begins by introducing arguments of causality, and proceeds to examine current options for analyzing data patterns purported to exhibit meditational structures. Iacobucci shows direct and indirect paths via causal paths, regression, and structural equations models. She also grounds readers in a popular structural equations modeling approach so they can implement the statistical methods discussed in testing for evidence of mediation in a variety of empirical contexts."--pub. desc.