Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think.

Social scientists often seek to demonstrate that a construct has incremental validity over and above other related constructs. However, these claims are typically supported by measurement-level models that fail to consider the effects of measurement (un)reliability. We use intuitive examples, Monte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jacob Westfall, Tal Yarkoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4816570?pdf=render