College
Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
Date of Last Revision
2025-05-06 06:37:42
Major
Actuarial Science, Statistics
Honors Course
STAT:498
Number of Credits
2
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Date of Expected Graduation
Spring 2025
Abstract
Mediation is an ideology often present in the social sciences. A mediator is meant to serve as the middle point between one party and another, taking the communications from one party and ensuring that the other party can comprehend that of the original party. Though this is very popular in social sciences, we can apply a statistical concept to it as well. We can explain the relationship between two parties and a mediator through a series of statistical equations, known as Baron and Kenny’s Equations. With these equations, we can determine how one variable is meant to impact another variable through this mediator, and we can apply it to the social sciences. We can then expand this model to include multiple mediators, giving a general sequence in mediation and its real-world applications. The goal of this paper is to inform the reader about how mediation analysis can be applied in statistics, hoping to make a connection between the social sciences and statistics.
Research Sponsor
Sujay Datta
First Reader
Richard Einsporn
Second Reader
Nao Mimoto
Honors Faculty Advisor
Nao Mimoto
Proprietary and/or Confidential Information
No
Recommended Citation
McCracken, Nicholas, "An Insight into Mediation Analysis" (2025). Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects. 2004.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/honors_research_projects/2004