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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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Mills, Jamie, D.; Olejnik, Stephen, F.; Marcoulides, George, A. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2005
The effectiveness of the Tabu variable selection algorithm, to identify predictor variables related to a criterion variable, is compared with the stepwise variable selection method and the all possible regression approach. Considering results obtained from previous research, Tabu is more successful in identifying relevant variables than the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Multiple Regression Analysis, Behavioral Science Research, Evaluation Criteria