Distributions of Correlation Coefficients

✍ Scribed by Hoben Thomas (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 101
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An important problem in personnel psychology, namely, the psychometric problem known as "validity generalization" is addressed in this volume. From a statistical point of view, the problem is how to make statements about a population correlation coefficient based on inferences from a collection of sample correlation coefficients. The first part of the book examines the largely ad hoc procedures which have been used to determine validity generalization. The second part develops a new model formulated from the perspective of finite mixture theory and, in addition, illustrates its use in several applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-6
A Validity Generalization Model....Pages 7-20
Estimation....Pages 21-37
Summary and Discussion of Validity Generalization....Pages 38-44
A Conditional Mixture Model for Correlation Coefficients....Pages 45-51
Parameter Estimation....Pages 52-53
Examples and Applications....Pages 54-70
Artifact Corrections and Model Assumptions....Pages 71-80
Back Matter....Pages 81-95

✦ Subjects

Methodology of the Social Sciences; Psychology, general; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law