New blog post on #MediationAnalysis (MA), which is widely misunderstood and overused in #CommunicationResearch and #Psychology.

I made mistakes using MA myself, and no one should be blamed. But it's important to discuss flaws, esp. as MA has become so popular.

www.raffaelheiss.com/post/mediation

Are you Interested in learning Mediation Analysis?

Ready newly published book by:

Wodtke, Geoffrey T. and Xiang Zhou. 2026. Causal Mediation Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

#ASA #MedicalSociology #MediationAnalysis #StatisticalAnalysis

New blog post: Longitudinal Mediation in R – A Hands-On Guide

A simple walk-through of how to model indirect effects over time using lavaan in R.

🔗 longitudinalanalysis.com/longitudinal...

#RStats #LongitudinalData #MediationAnalysis @usociety.bsky.social @ncrm.ac.uk

Impaired #sleepspindlehealth and #hypoxia have been linked to #dementia, but the relationship is not fully understood. In this study, they performed a #mediationanalysis using #SleepHeartHealthStudy data to uncover the mechanism.

academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...

Key point: SAI and ES partially mediated the relationship between stroke severity and PSE.
doi.org/10.1111/epi....

#epilepsy #ilae #earlyseizure #infection #ischemicstroke #mediationanalysis #poststrokeepilepsy

New paper alert! 🚨

We evaluated statistical methods for mediation analysis involving environmental mixtures, which offers a roadmap for applied researchers.

Full open access here:
🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s128...

#Biostatistics #Epidemiology #EnvironmentalHealth #MediationAnalysis