Monte Carlo based statistical power analysis for mediation models: methods and software

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1184-1198

  Zhang, Zhiyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Mediation models; Nonnormal data; Power analysis; R package bmem

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POWER ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; ADULT; ALGORITHM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA DISPLAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NEGOTIATING; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84942098549     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-013-0424-0     Document Type: Article

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