Estimating and comparing specific mediation effects in complex latent variable models

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-16

  Lau, Rebecca S ^a   Cheung, Gordon W ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

bootstrapping; computer simulation procedures; Monte Carlo; multiple regression; quantitative research; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055224059     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428110391673     Document Type: Article

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