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Sweet, Tracy M. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2015
Social networks in education commonly involve some form of grouping, such as friendship cliques or teacher departments, and blockmodels are a type of statistical social network model that accommodate these grouping or blocks by assuming different within-group tie probabilities than between-group tie probabilities. We describe a class of models,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Statistical Analysis, Probability, Models
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Marron, Megan M.; Wahed, Abdus S. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2016
Missing data mechanisms, methods of handling missing data, and the potential impact of missing data on study results are usually not taught until graduate school. However, the appropriate handling of missing data is fundamental to biomedical research and should be introduced earlier on in a student's education. The Summer Institute for Training in…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Undergraduate Students, Data, Statistics
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Bartolucci, Francesco; Pennoni, Fulvia; Vittadini, Giorgio – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
We extend to the longitudinal setting a latent class approach that was recently introduced by Lanza, Coffman, and Xu to estimate the causal effect of a treatment. The proposed approach enables an evaluation of multiple treatment effects on subpopulations of individuals from a dynamic perspective, as it relies on a latent Markov (LM) model that is…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Markov Processes, Longitudinal Studies, Probability
MacLellan, Christopher J.; Liu, Ran; Koedinger, Kenneth R. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Additive Factors Model (AFM) and Performance Factors Analysis (PFA) are two popular models of student learning that employ logistic regression to estimate parameters and predict performance. This is in contrast to Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) which uses a Hidden Markov Model formalism. While all three models tend to make similar predictions,…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Knowledge Level, Markov Processes
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Gilstrap, Donald L. – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2013
In addition to qualitative methods presented in chaos and complexity theories in educational research, this article addresses quantitative methods that may show potential for future research studies. Although much in the social and behavioral sciences literature has focused on computer simulations, this article explores current chaos and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Science Research, Behavioral Science Research, Statistical Analysis
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Verkuilen, Jay; Smithson, Michael – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2012
Doubly bounded continuous data are common in the social and behavioral sciences. Examples include judged probabilities, confidence ratings, derived proportions such as percent time on task, and bounded scale scores. Dependent variables of this kind are often difficult to analyze using normal theory models because their distributions may be quite…
Descriptors: Responses, Regression (Statistics), Statistical Analysis, Models
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Rijmen, Frank; Vansteelandt, Kristof; De Boeck, Paul – Psychometrika, 2008
The increasing use of diary methods calls for the development of appropriate statistical methods. For the resulting panel data, latent Markov models can be used to model both individual differences and temporal dynamics. The computational burden associated with these models can be overcome by exploiting the conditional independence relations…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Patients, Regression (Statistics), Probability
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Gardner, William – Psychometrika, 1990
This paper provides a method for analyzing data consisting of event sequences and covariate observations associated with Markov chains. The objective is to use the covariate data to explain differences between individuals in the transition probability matrices characterizing their sequential data. (TJH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics), Individual Differences