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Kjorte Harra; David Kaplan – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
The present work focuses on the performance of two types of shrinkage priors--the horseshoe prior and the recently developed regularized horseshoe prior--in the context of inducing sparsity in path analysis and growth curve models. Prior research has shown that these horseshoe priors induce sparsity by at least as much as the "gold…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Bayesian Statistics, Regression (Statistics), Statistical Inference
Eli Ben-Michael; Avi Feller; Erin Hartman – Grantee Submission, 2023
In the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, many state level public opinion polls, particularly in the Upper Midwest, incorrectly predicted the winning candidate. One leading explanation for this polling miss is that the precipitous decline in traditional polling response rates led to greater reliance on statistical methods to adjust for the…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, National Surveys, Elections, Political Campaigns
Ben-Michael, Eli; Feller, Avi; Rothstein, Jesse – Grantee Submission, 2021
The synthetic control method (SCM) is a popular approach for estimating the impact of a treatment on a single unit in panel data settings. The "synthetic control" is a weighted average of control units that balances the treated unit's pre-treatment outcomes and other covariates as closely as possible. A critical feature of the original…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Comparative Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Computation
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Gocet Tekin, Emine; Satici, Begum – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study aims to determine the relationship between authenticity and subjective vitality among university students in Turkey. The study was carried out with 284 university students (164 female, 120 male, M[subscript age] = 19.91 years, SD = 1.79, and age range: 17-30). Participants completed the Turkish version of the Authenticity Scale and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Mental Health, Prediction
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Zimmermann, Judith; Brodersen, Kay H.; Heinimann, Hans R.; Buhmann, Joachim M. – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2015
The graduate admissions process is crucial for controlling the quality of higher education, yet, rules-of-thumb and domain-specific experiences often dominate evidence-based approaches. The goal of the present study is to dissect the predictive power of undergraduate performance indicators and their aggregates. We analyze 81 variables in 171…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Academic Achievement, Prediction
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Crawford, John R.; Garthwaite, Paul H.; Denham, Annie K.; Chelune, Gordon J. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Regression equations have many useful roles in psychological assessment. Moreover, there is a large reservoir of published data that could be used to build regression equations; these equations could then be employed to test a wide variety of hypotheses concerning the functioning of individual cases. This resource is currently underused because…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Equations (Mathematics), Psychological Evaluation, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Furno, Marilena – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2011
The article considers a test of specification for quantile regressions. The test relies on the increase of the objective function and the worsening of the fit when unnecessary constraints are imposed. It compares the objective functions of restricted and unrestricted models and, in its different formulations, it verifies (a) forecast ability, (b)…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Statistical Inference, Regression (Statistics), Least Squares Statistics