Confidence intervals for distinguishing ordinal and disordinal interactions in multiple regression

Psychological Methods

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 245-258

  Lee, Sunbok ^a   Lei, Man Kit ^a   Brody, Gene H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Delta method; Disordinal interaction; Fieller method; Ordinal interaction; Reparameterization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84929518326     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/met0000033     Document Type: Article

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