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This tutorial pairs with Video 4 in the series. Full write-up will land when the video is published. Chapter 8 of Hair et al. (2026) has the theoretical treatment, and the code file seminr-primer-v2-chap8.R has the runnable example.
Video 4 Chapter 8 Mediation
Mediation Analysis
Testing mediation in PLS-SEM: specific indirect effects, total indirect effects, and the Zhao, Lynch & Chen typology of full, partial, complementary, and competitive mediation.
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What you'll learn
- Specify a mediation model in SEMinR
- Extract specific and total indirect effects
- Apply the Zhao et al. typology to classify mediation types
- Report bootstrap confidence intervals for indirect effects the way reviewers expect
R practice in this video
- > Save bootstrap artifacts with saveRDS() instead of re-running every session