---------------------------------------------------------- | 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 Apr 28 10:36:22 2007 Please input the output file name: output2.txt Please input the file name of the data: data2.txt The residual errors are not homogeneous and bootstraping raw data method can be used! The modified Brown-Forsythe test for error 1 is 4.23596 with df=(2,81) with the critical value 3.15148. The modified Brown-Forsythe test for error 2 is 14.3176 with df=(4,48) with the critical value 2.54786. Please choose the method(s), Type 1, 2, 3, or 4 1: NORM; 2: Bootstrap Raw data; 3: Bootstrap Error; 4: ALL 2 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): .05 Please input the bootstrap sample size for bootstraping raw data: 1000 -------------------------------------------------------- |Bootstrap raw data confidence intervals for mediation | -------------------------------------------------------- The estimate of the mediation effect a*b (standard error) 0.045728389 ( 0.14067073) Confidence interval of mediation effect Lower Upper CI(i) -0.22998105 0.32143783 CI(ii) -0.26377184 0.28792577 CI(iii) -0.19646899 0.35522862 Results for the other parameters in the model from the bootstrap analysis Parameter Estimate Lower Upper SE a0 -0.095552881 -0.29737217 0.092563054 0.10040397 c' 0.16074758 -0.27709572 0.50905146 0.20241386 b 0.076943081 -0.34316515 0.55417142 0.23086421 b0 -0.018197135 -0.14266391 0.11276661 0.063816661 a 0.59431451 0.27356751 0.86211102 0.15110404 a*b 0.045728389 -0.19646899 0.35522862 0.14067073 sigeM2 0.77571154 0.37804704 1.1758867 0.20959093 sigeY2 1.0219346 0.53374576 1.4503335 0.23896778 The total running time is 0.719 seconds. The results from each bootstrap are saved in the file BTraw.txt.