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Overweight and Obesity in Sexual-Minority Women: Evidence From Population-Based Data

Boehmer, Ulrike; Bowen, Deborah J.; Bauer, Greta R. - 2007

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether lesbians have higher rates of overweight and obesity than women of other sexual orientations.METHODS: We compared population estimates of overweight and obesity across sexual orientation groups, using data from the 2002 National Survey of Family...

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Forecasting Field Defect Rates Using a Combined Time-based and Metrics-based Approach: a Case Study of OpenBSD

Luo Li, Paul; Herbsleb, James; Shaw, Mary - 2005

Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...

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Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters

Chen, Daniel L.; Horton, John J.; Shaw, Aaron D. - 2011

The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...

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Ability Estimation Under Different Item Parameterization and Scoring Models

Si, Ching-Fung B. - 2002

A Monte Carlo simulation study investigated the effect of scoring format, item parameterization, threshold configuration, and prior ability distribution on the accuracy of ability estimation given various IRT models. Item response data on 30 items from 1,000 examinees was simulated using known...

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Examining the Cross-National Applicability of Multi-Item, Multidimensional Measures using Generalizability Theory

Durvasula, Srinivas; Netemeyer, Richard G.; Andrews, J. … - 2006

cross-nationally. Typically, researchers have relied upon the tenets of classical measurement theory (CT) using confirmatory …-national applicability? Our research seeks to address these issues and the cross-national measurement applicability of multi … demonstrate the usefulness of GT to cross-national multi-dimensional measurement. …

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Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity

Pallage, Stephane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008

In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...

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Reliability generalization: lapsus linguae

Smith, Julie Marilyn - 2011

This study examines the proposed Reliability Generalization (RG) method for studying reliability. RG employs the application of meta-analytic techniques similar to those used in validity generalization studies to examine reliability coefficients. This study explains why RG does not provide a...

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