The performance of Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) in comparison to Multilevel Modeling (MLM) in multilevel mediation analysis with non-normal data

The mediation analysis has been used to test if the effect of one variable on another variable is mediated by the third variable. The mediation analysis answers a question of how a predictor influences an outcome variable. Such information helps to gain understanding of mechanism underlying...

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Main Author: Pham, Thanh Vinh
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2017
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7077
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8274&context=etd