found: Work cat.: 2007011793: Introduction to statistical mediation analysis, 2008.
found: Wikipedia, March 30, 2007(Mediation (Statistics) In statistics, a mediation model is one that seeks to identify and explicate the mechanism that underlies an observed relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable via the inclusion of a third explanatory variable, known as a mediator variable)
found: Statistical strategies for small sample research, 1999:p. 195 (Statistical mediation is present when it can be demonstrated that the causal influence of one variable on another is transmitted through one or more additional variables, referred to as mediators or intervening variables) pp. 195-6 (Mediational analyses also can point to additional undocumented causes of an outcome by implicating antecedents of a mediator other than the putative causal variable.)
found: Iacobucci, D. Meditation on mediation on Association for Consumer Research web site, Apr. 4, 2007(Mediation is frequently of interest to social science researchers. A theoretical premise posits an intervening variable, some indicative measure of the process through which an independent variable is thought to impact a dependent variable. [...] If you must conduct a mediation analysis, be sure it has a strong theoretical basis.)
