Course: Statistics in Psychosocial Research: Measurement
Readings
Textbooks
Required
Richard G. Netemeyer, William O. Bearden, Subhash Sharma. Scaling Procedures: Issues and Applications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.
A.L. McCutcheon. Latent Class Analysis. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1987.
Highly recommended
Robert F. DeVellis. Scale Development: Theory and Applications. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1991.
Jae-on Kim and Charles W. Mueller. Factor Analysis: Statistical Methods and Practical Issues. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1978.
Session | Topic | Readings |
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1 |
Intorduction to Measurement |
No Reading |
2 |
Measuring Association and Dimensionality |
Required: Netemeyer. Pages xiii-xiv and 1-40. Recommended: Pagano, Gauvreau. Correlation. In: Principles of Biostatistics. Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press, 1993; 363-378. Digby PGN. Approximating the tetrachoric correlation coefficient. |
3 |
Principles of Psychometrics: Reliability I |
Required: Netemeyer. Pages 41-59. Recommended: DeVellis. Pages 18-42 Anastasi A. Reliability. In: Psychological Testing , 6th edition. New York : Macmillan, 1988. Carmines EG, Zeller RA. Reliability and Validity Assessment . Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1979. Bohrnstedt G. Measurement. In: Rossi PH, Wright JD, Anderson AB, eds. Handbook of Survey Research. Orlando , FL : Academic Press, 1983. Shrout PE , Fleiss JL. Intraclass Correlations: uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychological Bulletin 1979;86:420-428. |
4 | Principles of Psychometrics: Reliability II | No Reading |
5 |
Principles of Psychometrics: Validity I |
Required: Netemeyer. Pages 71-94. Recommended: DeVellis. Pages 43-50. Anastasi A. Validity: basic concepts. In: Psychological Testing , 6th edition. New York, Macmillan, 1988. Carmines EG, Zeller RA. Reliability and Validity Assessment. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1979. McCrae RR, Costa PT. Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1987;52:81-90. Bohrnstedt G. Measurement. In: Rossi PH, Wright JD, Anderson AB, Eds. Handbook of Survey Research, Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1983. |
6 | Principles of Psychometrics: Validity II | No Reading |
7 |
Scale Development |
Required: Netemeyer. Pages 94-107. Streiner DL, Norman GR. From items to scales. In: Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; 96-102. Murphy JM, et al. Performance of screening and diagnostic tests. Archives of General Psychiatry 1987;44:550-555. |
8 |
Factor Analysis I |
Required: Netemeyer. Pages 115-170. Recommended: DeVellis. pages 91-109. Kim J-O, Mueller CW. Factor Analysis: Statistical Methods and Practical Issues, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1988. Everitt B, Dunn G. Factor analysis. In: Applied Multivariate Data Analysis. London: Arnold Press, 2001. |
9 |
Factor Analysis II |
Recommended: Everitt B, Dunn G. Principal components analysis. In: Applied Multivariate Data Analysis. London: Arnold, 2001. Fisher LD, Van Belle G. Principal component analysis and factor analysis. In: Biostatistics: A Methodology for the Health Sciences, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993; 692-762. Johnson RA, Wichern DW. Principal components analysis (Chapter 8) and Factor Analysis and Inference for Structured Covariance Matrices (Chapter 9) In: Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis, 2nd edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988. Long JS. Confirmatory Factor Analysis: A Preface to LISREL. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1983. Muthen B. A general structural equation model with dichotomous, ordered categorical, and continuous latent variable indicators. Psychometrika 1984;49:115-132. Eaton WW, Bohrnstedt GW, eds. Latent Variable Models for Dichotomous Outcomes: Analysis of Data from the NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1989 |
10 |
Factor Analysis III |
Required: Shapiro, Lasarev, McCauley. Factor Analysis of Gulf War Illness: What does it add to our understanding of possible health effects of deployment. Am J Epidemiol 2002;156:578-585. Lakka, Laaksonen, Lakka, Niskanen, Kumpausalo, Tuomilehto, Salonen. The metabolic syndrome and total and cardiovascular disease mortality in middle-aged men. JAMA 2002;288:2709-2716. Hoodin, Kalbfleisch. Factor analysis and validity of the Transplant Evaluation Rating Scale in a large bone marrow transplant sample. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2003;54:465-473. Costa PT, McCrae RR Four ways five factors are basic. In: Personality and Individual Differences 1992;13:653-665 |
11 |
Latent Class Analysis I |
Required: McCutcheon A. Chapters 1 and 2. Latent Class Analysis , Newbury Park : Sage, 1987. Recommended: Uebersax J. LCA Frequently Asked Questions. |
12 |
Latent Class Analysis II |
Required: McCutcheon A. Chapter 3. In: Latent Class Analysis, Newbury Park, Sage, 1987. |
13 |
Latent Class |
Required: Nestadt, Addington, Samuels, Liang, Bienvenu, Riddle, Grados, Hoehn-Saric, Cullen. The Identification of OCD-Related Subgroups Based on Comorbidity. Biological Psychiatry 2003;53:914-920. Eaton WW, Dryman A, Sorenson A, McCutcheon A. DSM-III major depressive disorder in the community. A latent class analysis of data from the NIMH epidemiologic catchment area programme. British Journal of Psychiatry. 1989;155:48-54. Sullivan PF, Kessler RC, Kendler KS . Latent class analysis of lifetime depressive symptoms in the national comorbidity survey. Am J Psychiatry 1998; 155;1397-1406. Reboussin BA, Song E-Y, Shrestha A, Lohman KK, Wolfson M. A latent class analysis of underage problem drinking : Evidence from a community sample of 16-20 year olds. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2006 ;83:199-209. |
14 |
Sample Size in Reliability and Factor Analysis |
Required: MacCallum RC, Widaman KF, Shaobo Z, Hong S. Sample size in factor analysis. Psychological Methods 1999;4:84-99. |