Power Anomalies in Testing Mediation

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 334-339

  Kenny, David A ^a   Judd, Charles M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

causality; hypothesis testing; intervention; mediation; power

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84893611310     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613502676     Document Type: Article

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