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Guerra-Peña, Kiero; Steinley, Douglas – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Growth mixture modeling is generally used for two purposes: (1) to identify mixtures of normal subgroups and (2) to approximate oddly shaped distributions by a mixture of normal components. Often in applied research this methodology is applied to both of these situations indistinctly: using the same fit statistics and likelihood ratio tests. This…
Descriptors: Growth Models, Bayesian Statistics, Sampling, Statistical Inference
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Padilla, Miguel A.; Divers, Jasmin – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Coefficient omega and alpha are both measures of the composite reliability for a set of items. Unlike coefficient alpha, coefficient omega remains unbiased with congeneric items with uncorrelated errors. Despite this ability, coefficient omega is not as widely used and cited in the literature as coefficient alpha. Reasons for coefficient omega's…
Descriptors: Reliability, Computation, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Paek, Insu – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
The effect of guessing on the point estimate of coefficient alpha has been studied in the literature, but the impact of guessing and its interactions with other test characteristics on the interval estimators for coefficient alpha has not been fully investigated. This study examined the impact of guessing and its interactions with other test…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Computation, Statistical Analysis, Test Length
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Valente, Matthew J.; Gonzalez, Oscar; Miocevic, Milica; MacKinnon, David P. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Methods to assess the significance of mediated effects in education and the social sciences are well studied and fall into two categories: single sample methods and computer-intensive methods. A popular single sample method to detect the significance of the mediated effect is the test of joint significance, and a popular computer-intensive method…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Sampling, Statistical Inference, Statistical Bias
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Huang, Francis L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
Cluster randomized trials involving participants nested within intact treatment and control groups are commonly performed in various educational, psychological, and biomedical studies. However, recruiting and retaining intact groups present various practical, financial, and logistical challenges to evaluators and often, cluster randomized trials…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Sampling, Statistical Inference, Data Analysis
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Padilla, Miguel A.; Veprinsky, Anna – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
Correlation attenuation due to measurement error and a corresponding correction, the deattenuated correlation, have been known for over a century. Nevertheless, the deattenuated correlation remains underutilized. A few studies in recent years have investigated factors affecting the deattenuated correlation, and a couple of them provide alternative…
Descriptors: Correlation, Sampling, Statistical Inference, Computation
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Leth-Steensen, Craig; Gallitto, Elena – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
A large number of approaches have been proposed for estimating and testing the significance of indirect effects in mediation models. In this study, four sets of Monte Carlo simulations involving full latent variable structural equation models were run in order to contrast the effectiveness of the currently popular bias-corrected bootstrapping…
Descriptors: Mediation Theory, Structural Equation Models, Monte Carlo Methods, Simulation
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Patton, Jeffrey M.; Cheng, Ying; Yuan, Ke-Hai; Diao, Qi – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
When item parameter estimates are used to estimate the ability parameter in item response models, the standard error (SE) of the ability estimate must be corrected to reflect the error carried over from item calibration. For maximum likelihood (ML) ability estimates, a corrected asymptotic SE is available, but it requires a long test and the…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Inference, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Computation
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Bishara, Anthony J.; Hittner, James B. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
It is more common for educational and psychological data to be nonnormal than to be approximately normal. This tendency may lead to bias and error in point estimates of the Pearson correlation coefficient. In a series of Monte Carlo simulations, the Pearson correlation was examined under conditions of normal and nonnormal data, and it was compared…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Monte Carlo Methods, Correlation, Simulation
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Finch, W. Holmes; French, Brian F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2012
Effect size use has been increasing in the past decade in many research areas. Confidence intervals associated with effect sizes are encouraged to be reported. Prior work has investigated the performance of confidence interval estimation with Cohen's d. This study extends this line of work to the analysis of variance case with more than two…
Descriptors: Computation, Statistical Analysis, Effect Size, Comparative Analysis
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Padilla, Miguel A.; Divers, Jasmin – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2013
The performance of the normal theory bootstrap (NTB), the percentile bootstrap (PB), and the bias-corrected and accelerated (BCa) bootstrap confidence intervals (CIs) for coefficient omega was assessed through a Monte Carlo simulation under conditions not previously investigated. Of particular interests were nonnormal Likert-type and binary items.…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Inference, Computation, Statistical Analysis
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Padilla, Miguel A.; Veprinsky, Anna – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2012
Issues with correlation attenuation due to measurement error are well documented. More than a century ago, Spearman proposed a correction for attenuation. However, this correction has seen very little use since it can potentially inflate the true correlation beyond one. In addition, very little confidence interval (CI) research has been done for…
Descriptors: Correlation, Error of Measurement, Sampling, Statistical Inference
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Sueiro, Manuel J.; Abad, Francisco J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2011
The distance between nonparametric and parametric item characteristic curves has been proposed as an index of goodness of fit in item response theory in the form of a root integrated squared error index. This article proposes to use the posterior distribution of the latent trait as the nonparametric model and compares the performance of an index…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory, Nonparametric Statistics, Probability
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Barchard, Kimberly A.; Hakstian, A. Ralph – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997
The distinction between Type 1 and Type 12 sampling in connection with measurement data is discussed, and a method is presented for simulating data arising from Type 12 sampling. A Monte Carlo study is described that shows conditions under which precise confidence level control under Type 12 sampling is maintained. (SLD)
Descriptors: Models, Monte Carlo Methods, Sampling, Simulation
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Kirk, Roger E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2001
Makes the case that science is best served when researchers focus on the size of effects and their practical significance. Advocates the use of confidence intervals for deciding whether chance or sampling variability is an unlikely explanation for an observed effect. Calls for more emphasis on effect sizes in the next edition of the American…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Hypothesis Testing, Psychology, Research Reports