Mediation analysis and categorical variables: The final frontier

Journal of Consumer Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 582-594

  Iacobucci, Dawn ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary variables; Categorical variables; Mediation analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866317877     PISSN: 10577408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcps.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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