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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Struct Equ Modeling. 2010 Jul 8;17(3):510–534. doi: 10.1080/10705511.2010.489379

Table 2.

Required sample size to detect a mediated effect with power of .80 in a single mediator model with dichotomous treatment assignment

b path
a path small (.14) medium (.39) large (.59)
small (.2) 640 404 394
medium (.5) 450 92 66
large (.8) 512 76 42

Note. c’ path is held constant at .28, because it does not influence the power of the mediated effect (ab)