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Reputation: 19

interact_plot on binary IV and continuous moderator

Here are my variables:

I have 60 participants in total (30 in each binary X). I want to see if M has any moderating effects on X and Y. I dummy coded X into 0 and 1 after changing it into a factor (as.factor). I then ran an lm() in R with interaction (X*M) and all main effects and interaction were significant as seen below. enter image description here

I would now like to plot this and I'm trying to use interact_plot from the interactions package. Here is my code:

interact_plot(model = reg, pred = IncOrExc, modx = PerRisk)

But I get the following error message

Focal predictor ("pred") cannot be a factor. Either use it as modx, convert it to a numeric dummy variable

How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 461

Answers (1)

Bipa
Bipa

Reputation: 11

I think I'm quite late but... Interact_plot plots a continuous predictor variable on a continuous outcome. The moderator is the one that can be continuous or a factor. From your example, IncOrExc is the one you transform into a factor, right? So interact_plot is telling you that you should change it to a continuous predictor variable in order to plot it.

Upvotes: 1

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