Previous research explicates ordinal and disordinal interactions through the concept of the "crossover point." This point is determined via simple regression models of a focal predictor at specific moderator values and signifies the intersection of these models. An interaction effect is labeled as disordinal (or ordinal) when the…

Suppression effects in multiple linear regression are one of the most elusive phenomena in the educational and psychological measurement literature. The question is, How can including a variable, which is completely unrelated to the criterion variable, in regression models significantly increase the predictive power of the regression models? In…

The topic of "truncation by death" in randomized experiments arises in many fields, such as medicine, economics and education. Traditional approaches addressing this issue ignore the fact that the outcome after the truncation is neither "censored" nor "missing," but should be treated as being defined on an extended sample space. Using an…