Questions tagged [interaction]
A situation where the effect of an explanatory variable may depend on the value of another explanatory variable.
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Adding a 2nd interaction term makes 1st interaction term and the 2nd interaction term insignificant
I'm running a multiple linear OLS regression (X => Y) on a sample with 125 cases. My regression has two moderator variables (Z and W). Z and W correlate at about .4 but Z and W are two distinct/...
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Moderation analysis with non-significant main effects but significant interaction
I am doing a simple moderation analysis with one independent variable (IV), one moderator (M) and one dependent variable (DV).
Results indicate that a regression model containing both main effects (...
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Which emmeans to choose between full and main effect mixed effect models with heteroscedasticity corrected
I have a split splot full factorial design : 3 blocks, each block contains 4 plots for factor E and each plot is divided into 3 subplots for factor F. I use a mixed effect model with random effects on ...
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What is an appropriate technique for large number of correlated predictor variables with interactions?
I want to allow the effects of a large number of continuous predictor variables to be different depending on which treatment group the individual is a part of.
If I had only three continuous ...
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How to code effect modifier in a Cox Regression using R?
The definition of the distinction between the effect modifier and interaction term is:
Interaction and effect modification are formally defined within the counterfactual framework. Interaction is ...
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Interpreting dummy variable interaction terms
I am attempting to model monthly retail electricity sales. To account for both the effects of seasonality and weather, I created an interaction term by multiplying 12 monthly dummy variables by the ...
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Interactions terms and the dummy variables
I am attempting to model monthly retail electricity sales. To account for both the effects of seasonality and weather, I created an interaction term by multiplying 12 monthly dummy variables by the ...
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When non-significant interaction effects make a significant main effect non-significant [duplicate]
Suppose that I have two IVs (AnxietyLevel & experimental conditions (dummy coded as 0 and 1), and two control variables (Age & Gender) and one DV (mean score on a questionnaire). And I am ...
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How to include an interaction with a quadratic term? [on hold]
I want to predict $y$ with $x_{1}$ and $x_{2}$ and I suppose that $x_{2}$ has a quadratic effect on $y$ and that there is an interaction. How to model that?
I've look in previous questions but there ...
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Simple slopes analysis for regression with user defined contrast codes [closed]
I am struggling with conducting a linear regression with user defined contrast codes and simple slope analyses of significant interactions between the contrast codes and categorical and continuous ...
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Longitudinal mixed-model with co-varaites
I'm currently have a longitudinal dataset with dependent variable Y measures over two time points (variable = Time) across 4 groups (variable = Group). This variable Y is a continuous variable ...
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simr power simulation testing interaction term for 2 factors
I have a model with two factors: a (4 levels) and b (3 levels). Each participant receives two problems (id as a random effect). I want to estimate sample size based on pilot data to give me ...
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How do you use panel data to isolate the relationship of interest for a particular individual within your panel?
I have a panel data set where Canadian provinces are the individuals. (I have annual data from 1997-2017).
I am using a random effects model to see the impact of an explanatory variable $X_{it}$ on ...
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Integrals simulation in the program R [closed]
Given the simulation with the R program, show that the integral is below $\int_0^{\sigma^\pi (x)} x^2 \lambda e^{-\lambda x} d x =1/2$
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Assumptions of the problem
let $x|\lambda \sim exp (\lambda) \...
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help interpret interaction effect in linear mixed effect
I am trying to predict response time (transformed in Log) from Group (a factor with two levels: NS and NNS), and Time of Testing (a factor with three levels: Pretest, Posttest, Delayed-test), using ...
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Interpret contradicting output of lmer model with categorical interaction in R
I am struggling to interpret my output in R. It does not make sense to me.
I first regressed participants' ratings (= value) on manipulations (...
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Calculate odds ratios and P-value for interaction across multiple separate subgroups
I'm trying to understand/replicate an adjusted logistic regression analysis where a treatment effect is estimated separately in a number (>2) of subgroups and estimating an overall P-value for ...
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How powerful are second order interactions?
A lot of applications in statistics and machine learning model a phenomenon by second order interactions of variables and get good results. By second order interactions I mean, for a general variable $...
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Bayes factors and predictive accuracy in model comparison in rstan / brms
Despite reading up on the subject, I can't wrap my head round it, so the question remains on shaky grounds, and responses along the lines of "read chapter x" are very welcome.
What I'm doing is I'm ...
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similar risk estimates between groups but have significant interaction
I am running a cox proportional hazard model to analyze the association between air pollution and risk of mortality. In the subgroup analysis, I obtained some confusing results. For example, when ...
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Visualize cross over interaction logistic regression categorical variable in R
I have performed a logistic regression with the following variables:
X: Categorical with three levels (St, An, Int)
M: Moderator, which has two levels (Mob,Desk)
Y: Dichotomous dependent variable (0/...
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ANCOVA: resolving hetrogeneity of regression slopes with multilevel modelling vs adding an interaction term
On the Wikipedia page for Multilevel model it is written that
[M]ultilevel models can be used as an alternative to ANCOVA, where
scores on the dependent variable are adjusted for covariates (e.g....
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Estimating weights in the assignment problem
How would you learn a function with the emphasis on feature interactions?
I have the standard assignment problem:
$$
\max_{x_{ij}} \sum_{(i, j)} w_{ij} x_{ij},
$$
where $w_{ij}$ is the weight of ...
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Testing interaction terms individually and simultaneously
I am currently testing two interaction terms individually in OLS regressions. Both interaction terms are significant (p < .5) when tested individually (i.e., two regression equations, one for each ...
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non homogonous data and interaction
I have an experiment design with:
Variable 1 - 2 levels
Variable 2 - 3 levels
And demographic information collected about my participants:
Demographic 1 - 2 levels
Demographic 2 - 3 levels
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Multiple linear regression with dependent as a dummy predictor
I have a model $Y = \alpha + \beta_1X_1 + \beta_2X_2$.
$Y$ has a bimodal normal(ish) distribution, so I'm looking to see if the relationship between the predictors and the response is different for ...
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Help in Two-way ANOVA with Significant Interaction
(note: I removed the original table because there were some mistakes in it. I preferred to use R annotation of Sal's answer.)
Hi everybody,
I got the following results for an experiment of ...
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Using a t-test to follow-up on a non-significant interaction in an ANCOVA?
My question is about whether a t-test can be used to follow-up on a non-significant interaction found with an ANCOVA.
I have an experiment that compares the impacts on students' learning (as measured ...
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Logit model: Interpretation of interaction effect with only dummies
I have a large binary logit model (cross-section) with many variables, mostly dummies. From the information on age, I have created 6 dummies: 17-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54 (reference group), 55-64 and 65+...
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How to properly represent a sum of interactions in ANOVA?
I would like to include an ANOVA-style linear model in my work that shows the main effects but has interactions lumped together in one term for brevity. When I do the analysis I will include the ...
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Interaction in logit
I am estimating a model where interaction terms play a role, and I am wondering which specification I should use, and how to interpret the results.
More specifically, I regress a binary variable, say ...
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Interaction term to deal with heteroscedasticity
The variance in my dependent variable changes with a changing value in an important independent variable and is hence probably distorting the measured effect of the treatment. Can I combat this form ...
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Interpreting models with omitted interaction effects
Suppose I have two regressors, task availability (Xa) and task participation (Xp), and a DV Y. One can only participate in a task if it is available, but one can choose not to participate even if a ...
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How to interpret interaction in Log Log models
I have the following model, and I am not sure how to interpret the elasticity of the interaction term (log-log coefficients):
Log(member) = 3.61 + 0.52 Log(Poor) - 0.26 Log(Sick) + 0.04 (Log(poor) * ...
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Modeling interaction in variance
I run an experiment on both men and women participants, where I manipulate an independent variable. I know that the manipulation causes greater variance in the outcomes of the experimental group (a ...
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Mediation model of time series data
I'm quite new to mediation analysis so hopefully I can clearly explain my problem.
I wish to conduct a mediation model with a single mediating variable. The independent variable is a time series EEG ...
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Interaction between dependent and independent variable
I am conducting a multiple linear regression on data from a cross-sectional study, and I suspect that there is an interaction between my dependent variable (a disease risk marker) and one independent ...
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Interpretation linear mixed model with interaction
I'm doing linear mixed model with an interaction between the time and my exposure.
The fixed effects look like this :
Y ~ T + T*GRP + X
with T the time, GRP the exposure and X the adjustements ...
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Testing moderation hypothesis in regression discontinuity analysis
I am doing a regression discontinuity analysis in R (using the rdd package) and I am interested in testing a moderation hypothesis. I think that the effect of the treatment will depend on a third ...
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Using random forest to generate interaction terms for linear regression [on hold]
What I want to do is:
Setting random forest's each tree to be very shallow, probably 2 levels, or 3. Then I will create 100 trees. After that, I will use each tree's result as a predictor, and then ...
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What does it mean when running ANCOVA with two moderators and one of the interactions is insignificant when ran together?
I am hypothesizing that there are two moderators in the relationship between IV and DV. I ran one ANCOVA with moderator A and the interaction between IV and moderator A is significant. Then I ran ...
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Multiple regression: Interpreting three-way interaction with two categorical variables and one numeric (in R)
I have two quick questions. I’d like to confirm that I’m interpreting correctly one of my coefficients from a 3-way interaction in a multiple linear regression model. The summary of my model is below. ...
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Different ways of modelling interactions between continuous and categorical predictors in GAM
The following question builds on the discussion found on this page.
Given a response variable y, a continuous explanatory variable ...
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interaction term between continuous moderator and independent dummy variable (in OLS)
i would like to check if there is an interaction between the independent contiunous variable leverage and the choice of auditor - dummy variable (audited by big4: 1). The dependent variable is ...
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Interpretation of model with interaction quotient
I am unsure about the interpretation of $\beta_1$ in the binary choice model
$$Y=𝟙[\beta_0+\beta_1V+\beta_2\frac{V}{C}+\varepsilon>0].$$
Because I know that $V$ and $C$ are uncorrelated, I do ...
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Interaction analysis with categorical predictor and continuous moderator (and continuous outcome)
I'm working on a study in which I collect the following variables (among others), with which I would like to conduct a moderation analysis in R.
condition (categorical, 2 levels) - predictor
trait ...
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Can a complex interaction term mean more than what it's composed of?
I'm cross-posting this question on both Economics and Cross Validated to get answers from a different perspective on each field. It is generally accepted to cross-post if the question is tailored to ...
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Visualise: Interactions with Two Categorical Variables controlled for a continous variable
What is the best way to visualise an interaction between two categorial variables controlled for a third continous variable.
e.g.
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Moderated mediation included in a bigger path diagram
I want to specify a path diagram with 7 (observed) variables. It includes the following two relationships:
b ~ a; c ~ a+b.
Analyzing these three variables separately, it is possible to define a ...
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Is the significance of an interaction more important that the fit of a model?
I am new to lme4 and I am not sure if I understand correctly. If I want to know if there is an interaction between A and B, I have to write two models and then compare them with anova and the one with ...
