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Validity Concerns with Multiplying Ordinal Items Defined by Binned Counts: An Application to a Quantity-Frequency Measure of Alcohol Use.

Methodology : European journal of research methods for the behavioral & social sciences

McGinley JS, Curran PJ.
PMID: 25383075
Methodology (Gott). 2014;10(3):108-116. doi: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000081.

Social and behavioral scientists often measure constructs that are truly discrete counts by collapsing (or binning) the counts into a smaller number of ordinal responses. While prior quantitative research has identified a series of concerns with similar binning procedures,...

Examining Cohort Effects in Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use.

International journal of behavioral development

Burns AR, Hussong AM, Solis JM, Curran PJ, McGinley JS, Bauer DJ, Chassin L, Zucker RA.
PMID: 29056800
Int J Behav Dev. 2017 Sep;41(5):621-631. doi: 10.1177/0165025416651734. Epub 2016 Jun 16.

The current study demonstrates the application of an analytic approach for incorporating multiple time trends in order to examine the impact of cohort effects on individual trajectories of eight drugs of abuse. Parallel analysis of two independent, longitudinal studies...

A Moderated Nonlinear Factor Model for the Development of Commensurate Measures in Integrative Data Analysis.

Multivariate behavioral research

Curran PJ, McGinley JS, Bauer DJ, Hussong AM, Burns A, Chassin L, Sher K, Zucker R.
PMID: 25960575
Multivariate Behav Res. 2014 Jun;49(3):214-231. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2014.889594.

Integrative data analysis (IDA) is a methodological framework that allows for the fitting of models to data that have been pooled across two or more independent sources. IDA offers many potential advantages including increased statistical power, greater subject heterogeneity,...

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