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 Yi-ching Lin posted on Monday, September 09, 2013 - 8:01 pm
In the full model, I have four significant specific indirect effects:
A-->B-->A'(P-value: .000)
A-->C-->A'(P-value: .008)
A-->D-->A'(P-value: .258)
A-->E-->A'(P-value: .818)
and the sum of indirect effect is non-significant (P-value: .734)

So, I took off the two non-sig. paths and make my reduced model, however, the results became:
specific indirect effects:
A-->B-->A'(P-value: .000)
A-->C-->A'(P-value: .003)
and the sum of indirect effect is non-significant (P-value:.843)

Why is the sum of indirect effect still not significant(can i say even worse)? What does the result mean?

Thank you!
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 10:55 am
Please send the two outputs and your license number to support@statmodel.com.
 Yi-ching Lin posted on Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 10:23 pm
Sorry, what is license number?
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, September 13, 2013 - 6:42 am
You can see your license number when you login to your account at www.statmodel.com.
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