A finite-sample augmented likelihood ratio test for mediation
用于中介效应检验的有限样本增广似然比检验
Summary Testing for mediation suffers from low power near the origin. This can be addressed by augmenting the likelihood ratio critical region as discussed in previous work within an asymptotic framework. In this paper we consider exact distributions of test statistics and use this to derive optimal augmentation regions for arbitrary sample sizes. The resulting test is very simple and reliable, making it relevant for empirical research, even with a very small number of…