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Elbers, Benjamin – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
An important topic in the study of segregation are comparisons across space and time. This article extends current approaches in segregation measurement by presenting a five-term decomposition procedure that can be used to understand more clearly why segregation has changed or differs between two comparison points. Two of the five terms account…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, School Segregation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Residential Patterns
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Campitelli, Guillermo; Macbeth, Guillermo; Ospina, Raydonal; Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
We present three strategies to replace the null hypothesis statistical significance testing approach in psychological research: (1) visual representation of cognitive processes and predictions, (2) visual representation of data distributions and choice of the appropriate distribution for analysis, and (3) model comparison. The three strategies…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Hypothesis Testing, Psychology, Social Science Research
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Brookes, B. C. – Journal of Documentation, 1981
Argues that the application of Bradford's original formulation to Leimkuhler's choice of bibliographic citations more closely fits the statistical data than does his own. Operational research techniques are assailed as inadequate and wasteful to the needs and purposes of the social sciences. Six references are provided. (RAA)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Mathematical Formulas
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Lee, Sik-Yum; Xia, Ye-Mao – Psychometrika, 2006
By means of more than a dozen user friendly packages, structural equation models (SEMs) are widely used in behavioral, education, social, and psychological research. As the underlying theory and methods in these packages are vulnerable to outliers and distributions with longer-than-normal tails, a fundamental problem in the field is the…
Descriptors: Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Statistical Distributions, Structural Equation Models, Robustness (Statistics)