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Rutkowski, Leslie; Zhou, Yan – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2015
Given the importance of large-scale assessments to educational policy conversations, it is critical that subpopulation achievement is estimated reliably and with sufficient precision. Despite this importance, biased subpopulation estimates have been found to occur when variables in the conditioning model side of a latent regression model contain…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Error Correction, Regression (Statistics), Computation
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Lockwood, J. R.; McCaffrey, Daniel F. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Regression, weighting and related approaches to estimating a population mean from a sample with nonrandom missing data often rely on the assumption that conditional on covariates, observed samples can be treated as random. Standard methods using this assumption generally will fail to yield consistent estimators when covariates are measured with…
Descriptors: Simulation, Computation, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Bias