Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

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Volume 12, issue 4, 1987

The Journal of Educational Statistics: The First Decade in Review pp. 317-337

Robert J. Prosser, Ross E. Traub and Sandra L. Vegeris

Estimating Ability With the Wrong Model pp. 339-368

Howard Wainer and David Thissen

A Comparison of Two Methods of Decomposing Item Difficulties pp. 369-381

Kathy E. Green and Richard M. Smith

Meaningless Statistics pp. 383-394

Helen M. Marcus-Roberts and Fred S. Roberts

When Is it Preferable to Estimate Population Percentiles From a Set of Classes Rather Than From the Raw Data? pp. 395-409

Guy Châtillon, Réal Gélinas, Louise Martin and Louis Laurencelle

Book Reviews:Latent Variable Models: An Introduction to Factor, Path, and Structural Analysis John C. Loehlin Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987. x + 273 pp pp. 410-412

James L. Wardrop

Book Reviews:Goodness-of-Fit Techniques Ralph B. D’Agostino, Michael A. Stephens (Eds.) New York: Marcel Dekker, 1986. xviii + 560 pp pp. 412-416

James A. Koziol

Volume 12, issue 3, 1987

Determining the Most Significant Parametric Function for a Given Linear Hypothesis pp. 225-233

J. Gary Lutz and Leigh A. Cundari

Does the Correlation Coefficient Really Measure the Degree of Clustering Around a Line? pp. 235-239

Wei-Yin Loh

Examining Correlates of Diversity pp. 241-269

Stephen W. Raudenbush and Anthony S. Bryk

A Heteroscedastic ANOVA Procedure With Specified Power pp. 271-281

Rand R. Wilcox

Corrections for Attenuation and Range Restriction on the Predictor pp. 282-293

Jorge L. Mendoza and Michael Mumford

Fisher’s Tanh−1 Transformation of the Correlation Coefficient and a Test for Complete Independence in a Multivariate Normal Population pp. 294-300

John R. Reddon

Maximal Correlation Between Normal and Dichotomous Variables: A Note pp. 301-301

Mark Gradstein

Book Reviews: Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research pp. 302-308

Ian Wilkinson

Book Reviews:Factor Analysis and Related Methods pp. 308-313

Keith F. Widaman

Volume 12, issue 2, 1987

As Others See Us: A Case Study in Path Analysis pp. 101-128

D. A. Freedman

Barren Theory or Petty Craft? A Response to Professor Freedman pp. 129-147

Keith Hope

As Statisticians See Us: Comments on Freedman’s Paper “As Others See Us...†pp. 148-150

Christopher H. Achen

Structural Modeling and the Scientific Method: Comments on Freedman’s Critique pp. 151-157

P. M. Bentler

Comments on Professor Freedman’s Paper pp. 158-160

Norman Cliff

Statistical Models for Non-Experimental Data: A Comment on Freedman pp. 161-164

John Fox

Path Analysis in Genetic Epidemiology and Alternatives pp. 165-177

Samuel Karlin

Response to Freedman’s Critique of Path Analysis: Improve Credibility by Better Methodological Training pp. 178-184

Bengt O. Muthen

Casual Models Do Not Support Scientific Conclusions: A Comment in Support of Freedman pp. 185-195

David Rogosa

Comments on Freedman’s Paper pp. 196-197

Thomas J. Rothenberg

Discussion of D. A. Freedman’s “As Others See Us...†pp. 198-201

E. Seneta

Response to D. A. Freedman pp. 202-205

Herman Wold

A Rejoinder on Models, Metaphors, and Fables pp. 206-223

D. A. Freedman

Editor’s Note pp. NP-NP

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Volume 12, issue 1, 1987

Melvin R. Novick: In Memoriam pp. 1-2

Ingram Olkin

Melvin R. Novick: 1932–1986 pp. 3-5

William H. Angoff

Melvin R. Novick: Recollections of two Iowa Colleagues pp. 7-10

Leonard S. Feldt and Robert V. Hogg

Melvin R. Novick: Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Educational and Psychological Measurement pp. 11-20

Robert L. Linn

Melvin R. Novick: His work in Bayesian Statistics pp. 21-26

D. V. Lindley

Publications of Melvin R. Novick pp. 27-31

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Selecting an Equating Method: Linear or Equipercentile? pp. 33-43

David V. Budescu

Type I Error Rates and Power Estimates of Selected Parametric and Nonparametric Tests of Scale pp. 45-61

Stephen F. Olejnik and James Algina

The Use of Test Scores for Classification Decisions with Threshold Utility pp. 62-75

Wim J. van der Linden

Estimation for the Rasch Model When Both Ability and Difficulty Parameters Are Random pp. 76-86

Steven E. Rigdon and Robert K. Tsutakawa

The Inadequacy of ANOVA for Detecting Test Bias pp. 87-99

Gregory Camilli and Lorrie A. Shepard

Volume 11, issue 4, 1986

Minority Contributions to the Sat Score Turnaround: an Example of Simpson’s Paradox pp. 239-244

Howard Wainer

Derivations of Observed Score Linear Equating Methods Based on Test Score Models for the Common Item Nonequivalent Populations Design pp. 245-257

David Woodruff

Maximal Correlation Between Normal and Dichotomous Variables pp. 259-261

Mark Gradstein

Comparing Medians: A Monte Carlo Study pp. 263-274

Rand R. Wilcox and Ventura Charlin

Simultaneous Estimation of Regression Functions for Marine Corps Technical Training Specialties pp. 275-292

Stephen B. Dunbar, Shin-Ichi Mayekawa and Melvin R. Novick

Effect Size Standard Errors for the Non-Normal Non-Identically Distributed Case pp. 293-303

Hoben Thomas

Volume 11, issue 3, 1986

A Comparison of Efficiencies of Longitudinal, Mixed Longitudinal, and Cross-Sectional Designs pp. 171-181

Martijn P. F. Berger

Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Generalized Rasch Models pp. 183-196

Jan De Leeuw and Norman Verhelst

Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for the Linear Functions of Expected Mean Squares Used in Generalizability Theory pp. 197-205

John F. Bell

Dropping out of High School in the United States: An Observational Study pp. 207-224

Paul R. Rosenbaum

Reliability of Composite Measurements Based on them Highest ofn Equivalent Components pp. 225-238

Huynh Huynh

Volume 11, issue 2, 1986

Robustness of Irt Parameter Estimation to Violations of The Unidimensionality Assumption pp. 91-115

David A. Harrison

Error Probabilities in Educational and Psychological Research pp. 117-146

Rainer Westermann and Willi Hager

A Bayesian Version of Rasch’s Multiplicative Poisson Model for the Number of Errors of an Achievement Test pp. 147-160

Margo G. H. Jansen

Comment on “Statistical Power with Group Mean as the Unit of Analysis†pp. 161-169

R. Clifford Blair and James J. Higgins

Volume 11, issue 1, 1986

Beginning a Second Decade pp. 1-1

Melvin R. Novick

Recent Developments in the Factor Analysis of Categorical Variables pp. 3-31

Robert J. Mislevy

Bayesian Full Rank Marginalization for Two-Way Contingency Tables pp. 33-56

Tom Leonard and Melvin R. Novick

Random Coefficient Models for Multilevel Analysis pp. 57-85

Jan De Leeuw and Ita Kreft