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Re: Re: st: binary mediation command
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: Re: st: binary mediation command
Date
Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:45:46 +0200
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Pina Valle <[email protected]> wrote:
> However, proportion of total effect mediation is -.084. Would we still report 8.5% or does the negative mean something else?
The sign is as always very important. It means that your direct and
indirect effects have opposite signs, which makes it hard to think of
this in terms of variance explained. So I would find an interpretation
in terms of direct and indirect effects.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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