negative sample mean value

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Ingrid Snijders
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negative sample mean value

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Dear all,

What does a negative sample mean value implies (while the relationship between constructs is expected to be a positive one)?
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Re: negative sample mean value

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Obviously, your data has negative values. But this negative data is positively correlated with something else.

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