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After reading your post it made realize that the problem, as I posted it, is ill-conceived and allows for a variety of trivial solutions. For instance, take two standard normal random variables and add a positive constant (say 2 for argument's sake). They are both positively correlated and one...

Ok, I'll bite now because this thread is starting to get interesting. For a bivariate distribution (let's keep it simple), under which assumptions might one be able to claim that a positive correlation implies a larger mean in one marginal than the other? The bivariate normal is obviously out...

This is a good article with examples and solutions to use in R and SPSS: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/pare/vol24/iss1/1/

No. Without more information about the data, nothing can be inferred about the correlation and the averages.

Can you point on where in the STATA documentation they describe these models? I recognize a few but (with the exception of PCA) those acronyms are meaningless to anyone who doesn't use STATA. We need to know how STATA defines the models to tell the difference.

Mediation models like yours are very, VERY specific to subfields within the social sciences. It's usually hard to get help for those models unless you work with someone who specializes on them because almost nobody outside of those subfields uses them or is familiar with them. Have you tried to...

The most immediate reason of why this is a suboptimal approach is because your PCA scores are estimated from the data. These are datapoints that you didn't collect and observe so by treating them as just another collection of data points you underestimate the true uncertainty associated with...

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I think this could be of assistance

Well, it is difficult to make a claim as general as "The stars, planets and constellations were given much the same names and meanings by different civilizations over 5000 years ago." and not be incorrect in a few instances. A dramatic example might be in how Lucifer became associated with...

This seems very relevant to your question.

SPSS is the worst. Ever since it started shifting its focus away from the social sciences and into data science, it has become insufferable.

THIS IS THE CORONAVIRUS TALKING. HE'S BEEN POSSESSED!

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