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ERIC Number: EJ565864
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1644
Mean Centering in Moderated Multiple Regression: Much Ado about Nothing.
Kromrey, Jeffrey D.; Foster-Johnson, Lynn
Educational and Psychological Measurement, v58 n1 p42-67 Feb 1998
Provides a comparison of centered and raw-score analyses in least squares regression. The two methods are demonstrated with constructed data in a Monte Carlo study to be equivalent, yielding identical hypothesis tests associated with the moderation effect and regression equations that are functionally equivalent. (SLD)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Least Squares Statistics, Monte Carlo Methods, Raw Scores, Regression (Statistics)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Centering; Mean (Statistics); Statistical Moderation
Note: Version of an article presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Educational Research Association (Boston, MA, February 21-24, 1996).