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 …

Quantitative sociologists frequently use simple linear functional forms to estimate
associations among variables. However, there is little guidance on whether such simple …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-1155. vid There are many ways to
form value models, but few comparisons of value model formation methods in literature. This …

While linear models remain the backbone of human resource development (HRD) as well as
broader social science research, they are limited by their inability to detect curvilinearity or …

Decision-based design often states an aspirational goal for value functions of achieving
perfect ordinal consistency. How reliably such a standard can be achieved, however, is …

Despite the fact that data and theories in the social, behavioural, and health sciences are
often represented on an ordinal scale, there has been relatively little emphasis on modelling …