Does maternal psychopathology bias reports of offspring symptoms? A study using moderated non‐linear factor analysis

Author(s):  
Thomas M. Olino ◽  
Giorgia Michelini ◽  
Rebekah J. Mennies ◽  
Roman Kotov ◽  
Daniel N. Klein

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Reason ◽  
Yang Claire Yang ◽  
Allison Aiello ◽  
Dan Belsky ◽  
Patrick Curran ◽  
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Currently, studies of cognition and cognitive decline in the United States are limited by the use of samples that only provide data for respondents during one stage of the adult life course. By using an Integrative Data Analysis (IDA) framework, it is possible to pool multiple national representative samples together in order to create a unified dataset that includes respondents over the entire adult life course. This study applies an IDA framework to two independent public health datasets to create a commensurate measure of cognition using Modified Non-Linear Factor Analysis (MNLFA). The overall goal is to demonstrate the process of using MNLFA for the study of cognition in a pooled dataset.



2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liming Zhao ◽  
Dazhou Long ◽  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Xiaolin Hu ◽  
Bin Xing
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pere Ferrando ◽  
Urbano Lorenzo-Seva

<p>Unit-weight sum scores (UWSSs) are routinely used as estimates of factor scores on the basis of solutions obtained with the non-linear exploratory factor analysis (EFA) model for ordered-categorical responses. Theoretically, this practice results in a loss of information and accuracy, and is expected to lead to biased estimates. However, the practical relevance of these limitations is far from clear. In this article we adopt an empirical view, and propose indices and procedures (some of them new) for assessing the appropriateness of UWSSs in non-linear EFA applications. A new automated approach for obtaining UWSSs that maximize fidelity and correlational accuracy is proposed. The appropriateness of UWSSs under different conditions and the behavior of the present proposal in comparison with other more common approaches are assessed with a simulation study. A tutorial for interested practitioners is presented using an illustrative example based on a well-known personality questionnaire. All the procedures proposed in the article have been implemented in a well-known noncommercial EFA program. </p>



METRON ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-352
Author(s):  
Erick da Conceição Amorim ◽  
Vinícius Diniz Mayrink


Author(s):  
Nicholas Apergis ◽  
Alexandros Gabrielsen ◽  
James Payne ◽  
Paolo Zagaglia








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