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Peer reviewedSpeer, David C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1992
Considers relationship between statistically and clinically significant change. Sees Jacobson and Truax's index of clinically significant change as neglecting possible confounding of improvement rate estimates by regression to the mean. Describes alternative method (Edwards-Nunnally method) that incorporates an adjustment that minimizes this…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Outcomes of Treatment, Research Problems, Statistical Significance
Peer reviewedSchumm, Walter R.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1980
This review of the procedures involved in using path analysis provides guidelines for more effective future utilization of recursive path analysis in the field of family studies. (Author)
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Counseling, Models, Path Analysis
