Sentences with phrase «standard factor analyses»

In contrast to standard factor analyses, model fit is supported by the absence of any clear factors.

Not exact matches

The revised standard certificate of live birth: analysis of medical risk factor data from birth certificates in Alabama, 1988 - 92.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Although the «best interest» standard does vary from state to state, some factors are common in the best interest analysis used by the individual states, including:

One of the standard methods for assessing personality is to analyze people's answers to a 100 - item questionnaire with a statistical technique called factor analysis.

To be sure, statewide analyses can provide accurate estimates of the impact of school resources — but only if the analyst includes within the statistical model all the factors that affect student performance and, in the standard linear regression model generally favored by RAND, if these factors have a constant, additive effect on student achievement.

Three analyses were conducted with the cross-sectional data using teachers» WSS ratings of student achievement and students» WJ - R standard scores: a) correlations comparing the students» standard scores on the various subtests of the WJ - R and the WSS checklist and summary report ratings of student achievement within the corresponding WSS domains, b) four - step hierarchical regressions examining the different factors that accounted for the variance in students» spring WJ - R scores, and c) Receiver - Operating - Characteristic (ROC) curves, which make possible a determination of whether a random pair of average and below - average scores on the WJ - R would be ranked correctly in terms of performance on the WSS.

(2) Natural factors (volcanoes, solar cycle) influencing the trend are very small in comparison to anthropogenic CO2 (as e.g. standard correlation analyses show, see for example Lean and Rind 2008, Foster and Rahmstorf 2011).

There are a number of ways that passive house has closed the «performance gap» — including detailed thermal analysis of junctions and windows, and a high standard of on - site quality assurance — but another factor is the use of conservative estimates for internal heat gains.

For all its warts, Chevron at least avoids the protracted standard of review analysis, with its attendant standards, presumptions, categories, and factors which are confusing for the most learned of administrative lawyers.

The Court's rhetoric suggests the categorical approach, but a more close analysis suggests that the standard of review analysis factors, or some variant thereon, are the real motor.

Litigants and litigators are likely to become more confused in the future than they ever were by the standard of review analysis: at least the categorical approach's predecessor comprised four fixed factors.

In other words, while Justices LeBel and Cromwell purported to apply the categorical approach, [60] the real drivers of the choice of standard of review were the much - maligned standard of review analysis factors.

[25] The expertise of the decision maker and the raison d'être of the commissioner (i.e., balancing competing interests) are factors that would have been taken into account in a standard of review analysis.

At least with the previous standard of review analysis it was clear what factors would be relied upon.

Not since Dunsmuir has the Supreme Court identified the review standard through a sustained analysis of contextualism's four factors.

My analysis in this post is organized under the following themes: (1) the presumption of deference; (2) the statutory right of appeal; (3) relative expertise; and (4) the contextual or factored standard of review analysis.

I have a problem with judges interpreting (or setting) professional standards without referring to data and policy analysis which these regulatory bodies are required to gather, analyze and factor into their policy determinations.

Conventional fair use may require only a single test to determine fairness, but the Canadian fair dealing / fair use hybrid comes close by ensuring that virtually all uses will meet the purposes standard and proceed to the second - stage, six - factor analysis described above.

Mother - infant interaction was videotaped either in the laboratory or at home at all postpartum assessments using 2 validated procedures.37, 38 Factor analysis of subscale scores for maternal and infant behaviors identified a single internally consistent principal component, responsive interaction, that was standardized at each assessment to a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 10.

We implemented unadjusted and adjusted analyses (potential prognostic factors listed in table 2) of the outcomes (all quantitative) by using random effects linear regression models fitted by maximum likelihood estimation to allow for the correlation between the responses of participants from the same maternal and child health centre.29 We present means and standard deviations for each trial arm, along with the mean difference between arms, 95 % confidence intervals, and P values.

First two alternative models were tested using Exploratory factor analysis (EFA): 1) a standard EFA to examine the factor structure and to have a baseline model for EFA comparisons, and 2) a bifactor EFA.

On Becoming Trauma - Informed: Role of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey in Tertiary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and the Association with Standard Measures of Impairment and Severity Abdul Rahman, MD, FRCPC; Andrea Perri, MSN; Avril Deegan, MSW; Jennifer Kuntz, MSW; David Cawthorpe, MSc, PhD To examine the clinical utility of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinical data.

Varimax rotation was employed in the factor analysis, and an eigenvalue above one was used as the standard for selecting factors; the results are shown in Table 1.