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Jason A. Schoeneberger; Christopher Rhoads – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are increasingly used for causal evaluations. However, the literature contains little guidance for conducting a moderation analysis within an RDD context. The current article focuses on moderation with a single binary variable. A simulation study compares: (1) different bandwidth selectors and (2) local…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Causal Models, Evaluation Methods, Multivariate Analysis
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Xiangyi Liao; Daniel M. Bolt; Jee-Seon Kim – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
Item difficulty and dimensionality often correlate, implying that unidimensional IRT approximations to multidimensional data (i.e., reference composites) can take a curvilinear form in the multidimensional space. Although this issue has been previously discussed in the context of vertical scaling applications, we illustrate how such a phenomenon…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Simulation, Multidimensional Scaling, Graphs
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Alexander Robitzsch; Oliver Lüdtke – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025
The random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RICLPM) decomposes longitudinal associations between two processes X and Y into stable between-person associations and temporal within-person changes. In a recent study, Bailey et al. demonstrated through a simulation study that the between-person variance components in the RICLPM can occur only due…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Time, Simulation
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Bixi Zhang; Wolfgang Wiedermann – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background: Studying causal effects is an important aim in education. Causal relationships indicate how well implements (e.g., interventions) work for the target subjects. A good strategy to get the inference in such relationships is to conduct randomized experiments. However, random assignment is limited in education research, even is discouraged…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Causal Models, Algorithms, Simulation
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Charlotte Z. Mann; Adam C. Sales; Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch – Grantee Submission, 2025
Combining observational and experimental data for causal inference can improve treatment effect estimation. However, many observational data sets cannot be released due to data privacy considerations, so one researcher may not have access to both experimental and observational data. Nonetheless, a small amount of risk of disclosing sensitive…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Analysis, Privacy, Risk
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Xiao Liu; Lijuan Wang – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
In parallel process latent growth curve mediation models, the mediation pathways from treatment to the intercept or slope of outcome through the intercept or slope of mediator are often of interest. In this study, we developed causal mediation analysis methods for these mediation pathways. Particularly, we provided causal definitions and…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Mediation Theory, Psychological Studies, Educational Research
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Xiaohui Luo; Yueqin Hu – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Intensive longitudinal data has been widely used to examine reciprocal or causal relations between variables. However, these variables may not be temporally aligned. This study examined the consequences and solutions of the problem of temporal misalignment in intensive longitudinal data based on dynamic structural equation models. First the impact…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Longitudinal Studies, Data Analysis, Causal Models
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Ruoxuan Li; Lijuan Wang – Grantee Submission, 2024
Causal-formative indicators are often used in social science research. To achieve identification in causal-formative indicator modeling, constraints need to be applied. A conventional method is to constrain the weight of a formative indicator to be 1. The selection of which indicator to have the fixed weight, however, may influence statistical…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Causal Models, Formative Evaluation, Measurement
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Yuejin Zhou; Wenwu Wang; Tao Hu; Tiejun Tong; Zhonghua Liu – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Causal mediation analysis is a popular approach for investigating whether the effect of an exposure on an outcome is through a mediator to better understand the underlying causal mechanism. In recent literature, mediation analysis with multiple mediators has been proposed for continuous and dichotomous outcomes. In contrast, methods for mediation…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Causal Models, Evaluation Methods, Vignettes
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Minjung Kim; Christa Winkler; James Uanhoro; Joshua Peri; John Lochman – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Cluster memberships associated with the mediation effect are often changed due to the temporal distance between the cause-and-effect variables in longitudinal data. Nevertheless, current practices in multilevel mediation analysis mostly assume a purely hierarchical data structure. A Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to examine the…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Mediation Theory, Multivariate Analysis, Causal Models
Pashley, Nicole E.; Miratrix, Luke W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
Evaluating blocked randomized experiments from a potential outcomes perspective has two primary branches of work. The first focuses on larger blocks, with multiple treatment and control units in each block. The second focuses on matched pairs, with a single treatment and control unit in each block. These literatures not only provide different…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Research Methodology, Computation
Beth A. Perkins – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In educational contexts, students often self-select into specific interventions (e.g., courses, majors, extracurricular programming). When students self-select into an intervention, systematic group differences may impact the validity of inferences made regarding the effect of the intervention. Propensity score methods are commonly used to reduce…
Descriptors: Probability, Causal Models, Evaluation Methods, Control Groups
Dorie, Vincent; Hill, Jennifer; Shalit, Uri; Scott, Marc; Cervone, Daniel – Grantee Submission, 2018
Statisticians have made great progress in creating methods that reduce our reliance on parametric assumptions. However this explosion in research has resulted in a breadth of inferential strategies that both create opportunities for more reliable inference as well as complicate the choices that an applied researcher has to make and defend.…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Simulation, Causal Models, Research Methodology
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Hasegawa, Raiden B.; Deshpande, Sameer K.; Small, Dylan S.; Rosenbaum, Paul R. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2020
Causal effects are commonly defined as comparisons of the potential outcomes under treatment and control, but this definition is threatened by the possibility that either the treatment or the control condition is not well defined, existing instead in more than one version. This is often a real possibility in nonexperimental or observational…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Inferences, Randomized Controlled Trials, Experimental Groups
Isaac M. Opper – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Researchers often include covariates when they analyze the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), valuing the increased precision of the estimates over the potential of inducing small-sample bias when doing so. In this paper, we develop a sufficient condition which ensures that the inclusion of covariates does not cause small-sample bias…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Sample Size, Statistical Bias, Artificial Intelligence
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