What Is a Mediating Variable?
Last Updated Mar 31, 2020 2:19:28 AM ET
A mediating variable is a variable that accounts for the relationship between a predictor variable and an outcome variable. Mediator variables explain why or how an effect or relationship between variables occurs.
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