The Purpose of a Mediational Analysis Is to Examine Whether

question 47

Multiple Choice

The purpose of a mediational analysis is to examine whether a presumed causal relationship between two variables

• A)is due to some intervening variable.
• B)is different according to the level of some additional variable.
• C)is caused by some third variable.
• D)might be causal in the opposite direction from the initial assumption.

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Definitions:

Slope

The measure of the steepness and direction of a line, indicating the rate of change from one point to another.

Regression Line

A straight line that describes how a response variable y changes as an explanatory variable x changes, used in linear regression analysis.

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Least Squares Regression

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