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Evaluation Review, Vol. 5, No. 5, 602-619 (1981)
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X8100500502

Process Analysis

Estimating Mediation in Treatment Evaluations

Charles M. Judd

Harvard University

David A. Kenny

University of Connecticut

This article presents the rationale and procedures for conducting a process analysis in evaluation research. Such an analysis attempts to identify the process that mediates the effects of some treatment, by estimating the parameters of a causal chain between the treatment and some outcome variable. Two different procedures for estimating mediation are discussed. In addition we present procedures for examining whether a treatment exerts its effects, in part, by altering the mediating process that produces the outcome. Finally, the benefits of process analysis in evaluation research are underlined.


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