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Alison K. Cohen – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case study presents an example of using a generalized linear model with a log-linear link to calculate an adjusted risk ratio to be able to assess the association between educational attainment and obesity in a cohort study of American adults. Both risk ratios and odds ratios can be calculated based on cohort study data, and risk ratios are…
Descriptors: Models, Computation, Risk, Educational Attainment
Finkelstein, Doreen – College Board, 2009
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in April 2009. Compares results of different approaches to propensity-score matching with hierarchical data.
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Computation, Probability
Brandenburg, Richard K.; Simpson, William A. – 1983
The way that graphs can be used to make calculations that are commonly used by institutional researchers is described using specific examples, and the technique of constructing computational graphs (and nomographs) is outlined. It is shown that once a calculation involving several variables has been represented by a computation diagram or a…
Descriptors: College Planning, Computation, Data Analysis, Diagrams