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Saijun Zhao; Zhiyong Zhang; Hong Zhang – Grantee Submission, 2024
Mediation analysis is widely applied in various fields of science, such as psychology, epidemiology, and sociology. In practice, many psychological and behavioral phenomena are dynamic, and the corresponding mediation effects are expected to change over time. However, most existing mediation methods assume a static mediation effect over time,…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Longitudinal Studies, Attribution Theory
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Saijun Zhao; Zhiyong Zhang; Hong Zhang – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Mediation analysis is widely applied in various fields of science, such as psychology, epidemiology, and sociology. In practice, many psychological and behavioral phenomena are dynamic, and the corresponding mediation effects are expected to change over time. However, most existing mediation methods assume a static mediation effect over time,…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Longitudinal Studies, Attribution Theory
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Mingya Huang; David Kaplan – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2025
The issue of model uncertainty has been gaining interest in education and the social sciences community over the years, and the dominant methods for handling model uncertainty are based on Bayesian inference, particularly, Bayesian model averaging. However, Bayesian model averaging assumes that the true data-generating model is within the…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Statistical Inference, Predictor Variables
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Liu, Yixing; Levy, Roy; Yel, Nedim; Schulte, Ann C. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2023
Although there is recognition that there may be differential outcomes for groups of students within schools, examination of outcomes for subgroups presents challenges to researchers and policymakers. It complicates analytic procedures, particularly when the number of students per school in the subgroup is small. We explored five alternatives for…
Descriptors: Growth Models, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement