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Gottschall, Amanda C.; West, Stephen G.; Enders, Craig K. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2012
Behavioral science researchers routinely use scale scores that sum or average a set of questionnaire items to address their substantive questions. A researcher applying multiple imputation to incomplete questionnaire data can either impute the incomplete items prior to computing scale scores or impute the scale scores directly from other scale…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Data Analysis, Computation, Monte Carlo Methods
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Hung, Lai-Fa – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2011
The process-component approach has become quite popular for examining many psychological concepts. A typical example is the model with internal restrictions on item difficulty (MIRID) described by Butter (1994) and Butter, De Boeck, and Verhelst (1998). This study proposes a hierarchical generalized random-situation random-weight MIRID. The…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Computer Software, Psychology, Computation
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Zhong, Xiaoling; Yuan, Ke-Hai – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2011
In the structural equation modeling literature, the normal-distribution-based maximum likelihood (ML) method is most widely used, partly because the resulting estimator is claimed to be asymptotically unbiased and most efficient. However, this may not hold when data deviate from normal distribution. Outlying cases or nonnormally distributed data,…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Simulation, Racial Identification, Computation
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Vallejo, G.; Fernandez, M. P.; Livacic-Rojas, P. E.; Tuero-Herrero, E. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2011
Missing data are a pervasive problem in many psychological applications in the real world. In this article we study the impact of dropout on the operational characteristics of several approaches that can be easily implemented with commercially available software. These approaches include the covariance pattern model based on an unstructured…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Psychosis, Prevention, Patients
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Parker, Richard I.; Hagan-Burke, Shanna – Behavior Therapy, 2007
An obstacle to broader acceptability of effect sizes in single case research is their lack of intuitive and useful interpretations. Interpreting Cohen's d as "standard deviation units difference" and R[superscript 2] as "percent of variance accounted for" do not resound with most visual analysts. In fact, the only comparative analysis widely…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Effect Size, Comparative Analysis, Behavioral Sciences