Sociological Methods and Research
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Alternative Ways of Assessing Model Fit This article is concerned with measures of fit of a model. Two types of error involved in fitting a model are considered. The first is error of approximation which involves the fit of the model, with optimally chosen but unknown parameter values, to the population covariance matrix. The second is overall error which involves the fit of the model, with parameter values estimated from the s... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 21 Số 2 - Trang 230-258 - 1992
Multimodel Inference The model selection literature has been generally poor at reflecting the deep foundations of the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and at making appropriate comparisons to the Bayesian information criterion (BIC). There is a clear philosophy, a sound criterion based in information theory, and a rigorous statistical foundation for AIC. AIC can be justified as Bayesian using a “savvy” prio... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 33 Số 2 - Trang 261-304 - 2004
Practical Issues in Structural Modeling Practical problems that are frequently encountered in applications of covariance structure analysis are discussed and solutions are suggested. Conceptual, statistical, and practical requirements for structural modeling are reviewed to indicate how basic assumptions might be violated. Problems associated with estimation, results, and model fit are also mentioned. Various issues in each are... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 16 Số 1 - Trang 78-117 - 1987
Snowball Sampling: Problems and Techniques of Chain Referral Sampling In spite of the fact that chain referral sampling has been widely used in qualitative sociological research, especially in the study of deviant behavior, the problems and techniques involved in its use have not been adequately explained. The procedures of chain referral sampling are not self-evident or obvious. This article attempts to rectify this methodological neglect. The article prov... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 10 Số 2 - Trang 141-163 - 1981
A New Incremental Fit Index for General Structural Equation Models Assessing overall model fit is an important problem in general structural equation models. One of the most widely used fit measures is Bentler and Bonett's (1980) normed index. This article has three purposes: (1) to propose a new incremental fit measure that provides an adjustment to the normed index for sample size and degrees of freedom, (2) to explain the relation between this new fit... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 17 Số 3 - Trang 303-316 - 1989
A SAS Procedure Based on Mixture Models for Estimating Developmental Trajectories This article introduces a new SAS procedure written by the authors that analyzes longitudinal data (developmental trajectories) by fitting a mixture model. The TRAJ procedure fits semiparametric (discrete) mixtures of censored normal, Poisson, zero-inflated Poisson, and Bernoulli distributions to longitudinal data. Applications to psychometric scale data, offense counts, and a dichotomous... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 29 Số 3 - Trang 374-393 - 2001
The Performance of RMSEA in Models With Small Degrees of Freedom Given that the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) is currently one of the most popular measures of goodness-of-model fit within structural equation modeling (SEM), it is important to know how well the RMSEA performs in models with small degrees of freedom ( df). Unfortunately, most previous work on the RMSEA and its confidence interval has focused on models with a large df. B... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 44 Số 3 - Trang 486-507 - 2015
Sampling Weights and Regression Analysis Most major population surveys used by social scientists are based on complex sampling designs where sampling units have different probabilities of being selected. Although sampling weights must generally be used to derive unbiased estimates of univariate population characteristics, the decision about their use in regression analysis is more complicated. Where sampling weights are solely a... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 23 Số 2 - Trang 230-257 - 1994
Impact of a Confounding Variable on a Regression Coefficient Regression coefficients cannot be interpreted as causal if the relationship can be attributed to an alternate mechanism. One may control for the alternate cause through an experiment (e.g., with random assignment to treatment and control) or by measuring a corresponding confounding variable and including it in the model. Unfortunately, there are some circumstances under which it is not po... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 29 Số 2 - Trang 147-194 - 2000
Talk Is Cheap This article examines the methodological implications of the fact that what people say is often a poor predictor of what they do. We argue that many interview and survey researchers routinely conflate self-reports with behavior and assume a consistency between attitudes and action. We call this erroneous inference of situated behavior from verbal accounts the attitudinal fallacy. Though i... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 43 Số 2 - Trang 178-209 - 2014