ArticlePsychological methods2025
A novel approach to estimate moderated treatment effects and moderated mediated effects with continuous moderators.
Article in Psychological methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Causal Mediation Analysis for Effect Heterogeneity.Observational studies · 2026Article
- Understanding Who Benefits the Most from Interventions: Implications for Baseline Target Moderated Mediation Analysis with Multiple Moderators.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Moderation analysis is used to study under what conditions or for which subgroups of individuals a treatment effect is stronger or weaker. When a moderator variable is categorical, such as assigned sex, treatment effects can be estimated for each group resulting in a treatment effect for males and a treatment effect for females. If a moderator variable is a continuous variable, a strategy for investigating moderated treatment effects is to estimate conditional effects (i.e., simple slopes) via the pick-a-point approach. When conditional effects are estimated using the pick-a-point approach, the conditional effects are often given the interpretation of "the treatment effect for the subgroup of individuals…." However, the interpretation of these conditional effects as
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