So sánh phương pháp

	Phân tích trung gian đa cấp	Mô hình Tuyến tính Phân cấp (HLM / Mô hình Đa cấp)	Phân tích trung gian
Lĩnh vực	Thống kê	Thống kê	Thống kê
Họ	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
Năm ra đời	2003	1986	1986
Người khởi xướng	Kenny, Korchmaros & Bolger	Raudenbush & Bryk (popularized); Goldstein (parallel development)	Baron & Kenny
Loại	Multilevel structural model	Parametric nested-data regression	Indirect effects / path test
Công trình gốc	Kenny, D. A., Korchmaros, J. D., & Bolger, N. (2003). Lower level mediation in multilevel models. Psychological Methods, 8(2), 115–128.	Raudenbush, S.W. & Bryk, A.S. (2002). Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods (2nd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-0761919049	Baron, R. M. & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(6), 1173–1182.
Tên gọi khác	multilevel mediation, hierarchical mediation, cross-level mediation, 1-1-1 mediation	HLM, MLM, multilevel modeling, multilevel analysis	indirect effects analysis, path-based mediation, PROCESS macro mediation, Aracılık Analizi (Mediation / PROCESS)
Liên quan	8	4	5
Tóm tắt	Multilevel mediation analysis is a parametric structural method that estimates indirect (mediated) effects within hierarchically nested data, such as students within schools or employees within organisations. Formalised for lower-level mediation in multilevel models by Kenny, Korchmaros and Bolger (2003), it simultaneously handles individual-level (1-1-1) and group-level (2-2-1 or 2-1-1) mediation pathways in a single coherent framework.	Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM), also known as Multilevel Modeling (MLM), is a parametric statistical method for analyzing nested or clustered data — for example students within classrooms, patients within hospitals, or employees within organizations. Formalized by Raudenbush and Bryk in their 2002 seminal text (building on work from the mid-1980s), HLM simultaneously estimates individual-level and group-level effects while correctly partitioning variance across levels.	Mediation analysis is a statistical procedure that tests whether the effect of an independent variable X on an outcome Y operates wholly or partly through a third variable M, called the mediator. Formalised by Baron and Kenny in 1986, it decomposes the total effect of X on Y into a direct path (c′) and an indirect path (a × b), quantifying how much of the relationship is carried by the mediating mechanism.