--mediation_boot

Switch

--mediation_boot

Description

To be used in Mediation analysis to specify a bootstrapping method during the significance test. This has a default number of 1000 repetitions. A parametric method is used as the default significance testing method.

Argument and Default Value

Required Switches:

Details

To be used in Mediation analysis to specify a bootstrapping method during the significance test. This has a default number of 1000 repetitions. A parametric method is used as the default significance testing method.

Other Switches

Required Switches: * --mediation Optional Switches: * --mediation_boot_num Note: there are many other required and optional switches when running --mediation.

Example Commands

Using the packaged dla_tutorial dataset (see Differential Language Analysis (DLA) Tutorial):

dlatkInterface.py -d dla_tutorial -t msgs -c user_id -f 'feat$cat_met_a30_2000_cp_w$msgs$user_id$16to16' \
--outcome_table blog_outcomes --group_freq_thresh 500 \
--mediation --path_start is_student --outcomes age --mediators 344 \
--mediation_boot --mediation_boot_num 10000