From 8f2e4610c4b5cb348e1ae6cfe29c67e003f6199e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Tyson S. Barrett" Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 12:53:08 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] updated description with thomas leeper --- DESCRIPTION | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION index ceaa422..11a3af4 100644 --- a/DESCRIPTION +++ b/DESCRIPTION @@ -6,10 +6,13 @@ Authors@R: c(person(c("Tyson", "S"), "Barrett", email = "t.barrett@aggiemail.usu person("Angelo", "Canty", role = c("ctb"), comment = "S original bootstrap method, http://statwww.epfl.ch/davison/BMA/library.html"), person(c("Brian", "D."), "Ripley", role = c("ctb"), - comment = "R port, bootstrap method", email = "ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk")) + comment = "R port, bootstrap method", email = "ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk"), + person("Thomas", "Leeper", role = c("ctb"), + comment = "Vectorized marginal effects, https://thomasleeper.com/software.html")) Description: Provides the ability to perform "Marginal Mediation"--mediation wherein the indirect and direct effects are in terms of the average marginal effects (Bartus, 2005, ). + The style of the average marginal effects stems from Thomas Leeper's work on `margins`. This framework allows the use of categorical mediators and outcomes with little change in interpretation from the continuous mediators/outcomes. See for more details on the method (peer reviewed articles forthcoming).