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BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 1184-1198Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-013-0424-0
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Power analysis; Mediation models; Nonnormal data; Bootstrapping; R package bmem
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The existing literature on statistical power analysis for mediation models often assumes data normality and is based on a less powerful Sobel test instead of the more powerful bootstrap test. This study proposes to estimate statistical power to detect mediation effects on the basis of the bootstrap method through Monte Carlo simulation. Nonnormal data with excessive skewness and kurtosis are allowed in the proposed method. A free R package called bmem is developed to conduct the power analysis discussed in this study. Four examples, including a simple mediation model, a multiple-mediator model with a latent mediator, a multiple-group mediation model, and a longitudinal mediation model, are provided to illustrate the proposed method.
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