A New Procedure to Test Mediation With Missing Data Through Nonparametric Bootstrapping and Multiple Imputation

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 663-691

  Wu, Wei ^a   Jia, Fan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 84885044013     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2013.816235     Document Type: Article

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