Talk:Mediation (Statistics)

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This should be moved to Mediation (statistics). If no objections are raised within 24h or so, I'll move it. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 21:55, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

This doesn't make any grammatical sense: "The inclusion of the mediating variable into the equation increases the relation between the treatment and outcome rather accounts for (decreases in terms of the size of the statistical relation)." I'm not sure what the author intended.

[edit] Mediation (quantitative psychology)

This entry is written in the tradition of mediation as it exists within quantitative psychology. It is a good entry, but I don't think that the entry reflected that it was only concerned with a particular account of the concept of mediation. I feel that a proper place for this entry should be Mediation (quantative psychology) as the present entry does not say a whole lot about the statistical views on mediation (nothing on counterfactuals, graphical models, no mentioning of problems inherent in the extrapolation of the standard psych methods to non-linear models etc), but primarily deals with the statistics used my people with quantative psychology to quantify mediation. To my (limited) knowlegde there are seperate traditions of mediation in statistics, epidemiology and sociology, which are not covered by this entry.

--Udansk 09:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC)