---------------------------------------------------------- | Program name: MedCI.exe (V3.0) | | By Zhiyong Zhang & Lijuan Wang | | Email johnnyzhz@gmail.com for questions and comments | | See readme.txt for more information | ---------------------------------------------------------- ****************************************************************** * NOTICE * * Although this program has been tested to perform as expected * * in many cases, we cannot guarantee its performance under * * all possible circumstances. * * Users can use it for free at their own risks. * ****************************************************************** The BootMed program is ran on Sat Sep 22 14:19:58 2007 Please input the output file name: output1.txt Please input the file name of the data: data1.txt The residual errors are homogeneous and bootstraping error method can be used! The modified Brown-Forsythe test for error 1 is 0 with df=(2,94) with the critical value 3.12145. The modified Brown-Forsythe test for error 2 is 0.482759 with df=(8,96) with the critical value 1.98371. Please choose the method(s), Type 1, 2, 3, or 4 1: NORM; 2: Bootstrap Raw data; 3: Bootstrap Error; 4: ALL 3 Please specify the alpha level (a number between 0 and 1 only): 0.05 Please specify the random number seed (a number between 0 and 1 only): .5 Please input the bootstrap sample size for bootstraping error data: 999 -------------------------------------------------------- |Bootstrap error confidence intervals for mediation | -------------------------------------------------------- The estimate of the mediation effect a*b (standard error) 0.5124667 ( 0.096677584) Confidence interval of mediation effect Lower Upper CI(i) 0.3229822 0.70195119 CI(ii) 0.32001699 0.68549438 CI(iii) 0.33943901 0.7049164 Estimates, Confidence interval, and SE for all parameters Parameter Estimate Lower Upper SE a0 -0.066724302 -0.25576732 0.10403264 0.093670958 c' 0.030282661 -0.17660739 0.25019454 0.10826762 b 0.75176488 0.60097261 0.91244729 0.083507263 b0 -0.0073144953 -0.22862358 0.18070464 0.10499164 a 0.6816848 0.48816995 0.87822447 0.1030827 a*b 0.5124667 0.33943901 0.7049164 0.096677584 sigeM2 1.0448244 0.78371658 1.291782 0.13307469 sigeY2 0.88467359 0.65213072 1.111709 0.12047144 The total running time is 0.766 seconds. The results from each bootstrap are saved in the file BTerror.txt.