Dan Schley
@dschley.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Marketing, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
Quantitative Psychologist with academic OCD.
Quantitative Psychologist with academic OCD.
Even if the causal assumptions for mediation hold, statistical assumptions can fail. Features like skewed distributions or outliers can distort standard estimates. Our new paper details which data issues cause trouble and reviews methods built to handle them: dx.doi.org/10.1002/wics...
Robust Mediation Analysis: What We Talk About When We Talk About Robustness
A simulated example illustrates the potential effect of a single outlier on mediation analysis. The left column shows data generated under the mediation model, while the right column further includes...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Even if the causal assumptions for mediation hold, statistical assumptions can fail. Features like skewed distributions or outliers can distort standard estimates. Our new paper details which data issues cause trouble and reviews methods built to handle them: dx.doi.org/10.1002/wics...