Process Analysis

Charles M. Judd and David A. Kenny
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Charles M. Judd: Harvard University
David A. Kenny: University of Connecticut

Evaluation Review, 1981, vol. 5, issue 5, 602-619

Abstract: This article presents the rationale and procedures for conducting a process analysis in evaluation research. Such an analysis attempts to identify the process that mediates the effects of some treatment, by estimating the parameters of a causal chain between the treatment and some outcome variable. Two different procedures for estimating mediation are discussed. In addition we present procedures for examining whether a treatment exerts its effects, in part, by altering the mediating process that produces the outcome. Finally, the benefits of process analysis in evaluation research are underlined .

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X8100500502

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