Re: [R] Control variables in mediation analysis

2013-03-21 Thread Bert Gunter
Well, yeah ... but it doesn't necessarily follow that the result converges
to what you want. Bootstrapping extreme order statistics is an example.

-- Bert

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Ista Zahn  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just about anything can be bootstrapped, that's one of the things that
> makes bootstrapping great! Use e.g., the boot package, and bootstrap
> the product of the coefficients.
>
> Alternatively the mediation package
> (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mediation/index.html) might
> help, though I'm not sure if it uses bootstrap.
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM, F.Doerwald 
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,I would like to test a mediation model, that has several
> control variables. More specifically, I would like to test the indirect
> effect with bootstrapping. However, all the packages I have found so far
> (e.g. MBESS) only allow testing a simple mediation model (One independent,
> one mediator, one dependent) so that I cannot include any controls.
> > Can somebody help me?
> >
> >
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Re: [R] Control variables in mediation analysis

2013-03-21 Thread John Fox
Dear Ista and F.Doerwald,

F.Doerwald could also fit a model using sem() in the sem package, and then use 
deltaMethod() in the car package to get the estimated value and standard error 
of any function of model coefficients that he or she chooses.

Sorry, I didn't read the original posting.

I hope this helps,
 John


John Fox
Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:49:46 -0400
 Ista Zahn  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just about anything can be bootstrapped, that's one of the things that
> makes bootstrapping great! Use e.g., the boot package, and bootstrap
> the product of the coefficients.
> 
> Alternatively the mediation package
> (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mediation/index.html) might
> help, though I'm not sure if it uses bootstrap.
> 
> Best,
> Ista
> 
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM, F.Doerwald  wrote:
> > Hi everyone,I would like to test a mediation model, that has several 
> > control variables. More specifically, I would like to test the indirect 
> > effect with bootstrapping. However, all the packages I have found so far 
> > (e.g. MBESS) only allow testing a simple mediation model (One independent, 
> > one mediator, one dependent) so that I cannot include any controls.
> > Can somebody help me?
> >
> >
> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >
> > __
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> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
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Re: [R] Control variables in mediation analysis

2013-03-21 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi,

Just about anything can be bootstrapped, that's one of the things that
makes bootstrapping great! Use e.g., the boot package, and bootstrap
the product of the coefficients.

Alternatively the mediation package
(http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mediation/index.html) might
help, though I'm not sure if it uses bootstrap.

Best,
Ista

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM, F.Doerwald  wrote:
> Hi everyone,I would like to test a mediation model, that has several control 
> variables. More specifically, I would like to test the indirect effect with 
> bootstrapping. However, all the packages I have found so far (e.g. MBESS) 
> only allow testing a simple mediation model (One independent, one mediator, 
> one dependent) so that I cannot include any controls.
> Can somebody help me?
>
>
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> __
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

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