Equivalence of the mediation, confounding and suppression effect

Prevention Science

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 173-181

  MacKinnon, David P ^a   Krull, Jennifer L ^a   Lockwood, Chondra M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Confounding; Mediation; Suppression

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034575354     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026595011371     Document Type: Article

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