proc causalmed

AbdulazizAbaoud — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:18:44 GMT

Greetings, I am working on survey data for my dissertation and I completely using SAS on demand studio for conducting my analyses. My main aim is to evaluate a mediational relationships. After reading different sources I found out that the best approach is to examine the indirect effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable via the mediator.

I read about the Proc Causalmed statement and tried to work on it. However, the statement does not look to be working with me. I cannot do anything with it and therefore cannot perform the procedure.

Another question is about the application of survey weights, strata, and clusters for the analysis. I am not sure if this is applicable or not?

Please I need your help to conduct the analysis and if there is another approach for a mediation analysis besides the Baron and Kenny approach (three regression models) that would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Re: proc causalmed

sbxkoenk — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:14:35 GMT

Hello @AbdulazizAbaoud ,

Please submit :

proc causalmed; run;

It should say this in the LOG (or something similar) :

1    proc causalmed; run;
NOTE: Writing HTML Body file: sashtml.htm
ERROR: There is not a default input data set (_LAST_ is _NULL_).

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: PROCEDURE CAUSALMED used (Total process time):
      real time           0.77 seconds
      cpu time            0.21 seconds

If that is what the LOG says, YOU CAN USE PROC CAUSALMED.

Thanks,

Koen

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