moderator variable
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moderator
noun[C]
uk/ˈmɒd.ər.eɪ.tər/us/ˈmɑː.də.reɪ.t̬ɚ/
someone who tries to help other people come to ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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A fourth possiblemoderatorvariableis the intelligence level of participants.
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Moderation, in particular, involves the specification of differential treatment response in different subgroups, identified by themoderatorvariable.
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The observed dependence variable is depicted in rectangles, latent variables in circles and themoderatorvariablein a diamond.
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Culture is thereby conceived as amoderatorvariablethat tells us whether certain errors or biases are more or less prevalent in one culture or another.
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Termed an effect modifier in the vocabulary of epidemiology, amoderatorvariablespecifies the conditions under which or subgroups in which a statistical association of interest occurs.
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Amoderatorvariableaffects the direction or strength of the correlation between two variables.
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The third variable is referred to as themoderatorvariableor simply the moderator.
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Indeed, because of their baseline status, potential moderator variables are, by definition, uncorrelated with treatment assignment.
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The question of moderator variables has larger, paradigmatic importance in social psychology.
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This is where there is initially overall moderation and the direct effect of themoderatorvariableon the outcome is mediated.
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The second issue concerns the role of moderator variables in research on misbehavior and flawed judgment.
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Crucially, putative moderator variables are measured before the participants are randomly assigned to treatment conditions.
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Such moderator variables will likely involve individual difference characteristics such as dimensions of temperament, personality, or stable cognitive style.
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Control for moderator variables is then necessary.
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These findings suggest that effects will best be explained by theories of etiology that include moderator variables capturing these variations in causal process.
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In meta-analysis, moderator variables take this diversity into account and allow for tests of its influence on the combined effect size.
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Thus, it appears that the selection of moderator variables has been based more on convention than on theoretical considerations.
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First, a series of preliminary analyses were carried out to identify which of the hypothesized risk and moderator variables needed to be retained in the full model.
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