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Peer reviewedSturman, Michael C. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1999
Compares eight models for analyzing count data through simulation in the context of prediction of absenteeism to indicate the extent to which each model produces false positives. Results suggest that ordinary least-squares regression does not produce more false positives than expected by chance. The Tobit and Poisson models do yield too many false…
Descriptors: Attendance, Individual Differences, Least Squares Statistics, Models
