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Koslowsky, Meni – Social Behavior and Personality, 1988
Notes that researchers are often required to examine specific model under two different situations. Cites studies in which authors compared results descriptively without use of inferential statistics. Describes use of series of regression tests to compare two situations statistically. Gives example from recent study to illustrate technique.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Foreign Countries

Bartle, Suzanne E.; Anderson, Stephen A. – Adolescence, 1991
Notes that intergenerational theories of family functioning sparked interest in empirical investigations that test intergenerational relationships. Presents test of difference scores enabling researchers to compare related and unrelated dyads, thus creating comparison group when using only two generations. Contrasts procedure with correlational…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Postsecondary Research and Information Systems. – 1991
This report, based on information gained from multiple surveys of physicians conducted since 1980, addresses a number of basic public policy questions regarding physician manpower supply and distribution in the state of New York. The report's primary focus is longitudinal, attempting to identify patterns and trends among New York State's…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Foreign Medical Graduates

Corbett, H. Dickson – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1984
School context constrains and supports field researchers' data collection activities, just as it can influence the educational change processes being studied. For outsiders, the accessibility of a school is affected by a number of factors. These influence findings and have implications for achieving data comparability across several sites.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Environment

Detweiler, Karen – Library Hi Tech, 1984
Enumerates principal management objectives of database management systems (data independence, quality, security, multiuser access, central control) and criteria for comparison (response time, size, flexibility, other features). Conventional database management systems, relational databases, and database machines used for backend processing are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Computers, Data Processing
Keselman, H. J.; Cribbie, Robert A.; Holland, Burt – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
Locating pairwise differences among treatment groups is a common practice of applied researchers. Articles published in this journal have addressed the issue of statistical inference within the context of an analysis of variance (ANOVA) framework, describing procedures for comparing means, among other issues. In particular, 1 article (Jaccard &…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Statistical Inference, Comparative Analysis, Child Psychology
Kulp, Carol S. – Database, 1984
Presents survey of two groups of databases covering patent literature: patent literature only and general literature that includes patents relevant to subject area of database. Description of databases and comparison tables for patent and general databases (cost, country coverage, years covered, update frequency, file size, and searchable data…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Information Retrieval, Online Systems
Edwards, Virginia, Ed. – Education Week, 2006
This special issue presents the ninth edition of "Education Week's" annual report on education technology, "Technology Counts." The annual report found that the nation has made dramatic progress in developing computerized data systems that can reliably guide education decision-making, but still has plenty of work to do before those systems can…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Academic Achievement, Educational Technology, School Districts

State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1992
This volume (second of three) contains statistical tables displaying origin or origin grouping of credit course students attending the State University of New York System. The volume contains six parts: Part 1 contains separate tables for each New York State county; Part 2 displays the permanent residence of students from outside of New York State…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Credit Courses, Data Collection

Westerman, Mel – College and Research Libraries, 1982
Study presents data based on American Association of University Professors (AAUP) tabulations for salary comparisons between instructional faculty and academic librarians. Eleven references are provided. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education

Hout, Michael; Goldstein, Joshua R. – American Sociological Review, 1994
Examines the influences contributing to greater population increases in some ethnic groups than natural increases would normally determine. The influences of interaction among time of arrival, overall fertility and mortality trends, differential fertility, intermarriage, and subjective identification are explored. (GLR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity

Huba, George J.; Bentler, Peter M. – Journal of Drug Education, 1983
Reexamined previous statistical comparisons of two models for adolescent drug abuse using new statistical estimation methods in causal modeling not requiring assumptions about normally distributed variables. An asymptotically distribution free method shows that the models fit even better than assumed in the initial work. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Drug Abuse

Gati, Itamar – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Tested models of interests by examining the significance of disconfirmed ordinal predictions. Examined data regarding Holland's hexagonal model and Roe's circular ordering. Tested adequacy of the hierarchical model and compared significance of the disconfirmed predictions of the hierachical model to that of the hexagonal-circular model. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries
Jenkins, Sarah – 1991
This report provides results of a study that measured lender profitability in the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program and compares these results with the profitability of other types of lending. Data analysis reveals credit card lending to be the highest average level of profitability over the 5-year period considered. Other lending types, in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Credit Cards, Data Analysis, Economic Research
National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1980
Using information obtained from the Educational Research Service, this report briefly summarizes in table form the current salary schedules for principals and assistant principals. Section 1 compares 1979-80 minimum and maximum salary schedule summaries by school district enrollment size. Section 2 makes the comparison by using a per pupil…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment