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 Stanislaw posted on Monday, September 02, 2019 - 3:17 am
Hallo,

I am testing a mediation model with two predictors (one is intervention vs. control group), a mediating variable, and an outcome variable. Below you can find the syntax. Do I need to consider clusters in the mediating and outcome variable (and thus, use type=complex)? The existing clusters are due to the intervention, I guess.

analysis: type = general;
estimator=mlr;

model: quan on instr zsw;
mod on quan instr;

[zsw];
[instr];

model indirect: mod ind zsw;
mod ind instr;

output: sampstat stdyx;

Thank you for your help!
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Monday, September 02, 2019 - 1:06 pm
What are your clusters?
 Stanislaw posted on Tuesday, September 03, 2019 - 12:05 am
Sorry: Students in classes. One half of each class got strategy instructions, the other half not. We have design effects greater than two for strategy use (mediator)-of course.
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Tuesday, September 03, 2019 - 7:01 am
You can do twolevel modeling in line with Preacher et al's pdf's on our Mediation page:

http://www.statmodel.com/Mediation.shtml

They call your case 1-1-1 mediation (X, M, and Y are all on level 1).

You should also read the articles that go with those pdf's.
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