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How to interpret interaction terms

I keep referring to this issue in manuscript reviews, so I thought it worth a post. If you include an interaction term in a model, the statistical significance of the main effects and the interaction term tells you nothing about the interactive effect. This seems contrary to your intuition. Turns out the interactive effect may only significantly differ from zero for part of the covariate space...

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