Applied statistics

  Write a 2- to 3-page critique of the research you found in the Walden Library that includes responses to the following prompts: Why did the authors use moderation/mediation in their multiple regression model? Do you think moderation/mediation is the most appropriate choice? Why or why not? Did the authors display the results in a figure or table? Does the results table stand alone? In other words, are you able to interpret the study from it? Why or why not? Here are the required reading: Required Readings Warner, R. M. (2013). Applied statistics: From bivariate through multivariate techniques (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Chapter 15, “Moderation: Tests for Interaction in Multiple Regression” (pp. 611–644) This chapter provides guidance for the analysis of interaction in regression in fairly simple situations, including the ways to actually write up the results of these interactions. Warner, R. M. (2013). Applied statistics: From bivariate through multivariate techniques (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Chapter 16, “Mediation” (pp. 645–687) This chapter demonstrates how to assess whether a proposed mediating variable may partly or completely mediate the effect of an initial predictor variable on an outcome variable.