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Direct linkSmithson, Michael; Verkuilen, Jay – Psychological Methods, 2006
Uncorrectable skew and heteroscedasticity are among the "lemons" of psychological data, yet many important variables naturally exhibit these properties. For scales with a lower and upper bound, a suitable candidate for models is the beta distribution, which is very flexible and models skew quite well. The authors present…
Descriptors: Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Predictor Variables, Mathematical Models, Comparative Analysis
