Intermedia Agenda Setting amid the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online News
Table 4
Granger causality results for official media and confirmed cases.
Topics
Official media ⟶ confirmed cases
Confirmed cases⟶ official media
Pandemic notifications
3.97∗∗
2.87∗∗
Treatment on patients
2.87∗∗
6.22∗∗
Methods for pandemic prevention
3.07∗∗
1.76
Scientific knowledge
3.46∗∗
1.85
Social assistance
18.52∗∗
7.89∗∗
Work resumption
0.58
0.14
International pandemic situation
1.39
1.40
Propaganda and mobilization
1.70
1.95
Note. The Granger causality tests documented in the table are based on F distributions for significance. N/A indicates that at least one of the time series tested was not stationary ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01.