Comments on: Stats and Methods Urban Legend 1: Formative Measurement http://neoacademic.com/2011/04/25/stats-and-methods-urban-legends-1-formative-measurement/ technology, education and training research from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist in the ivory tower Sat, 04 May 2013 15:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The baby sitter studying statistics | Cranky Ron http://neoacademic.com/2011/04/25/stats-and-methods-urban-legends-1-formative-measurement/#comment-13865 The baby sitter studying statistics | Cranky Ron Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:42:16 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=1224#comment-13865 [...] Stats and Methods Urban Legend 1: Formative Measurement | NeoAcademic. This is the first of four posts about common problems with statistics and research design in the social sciences.  For people with some stats background. [...]

]]> By: jebyrnes http://neoacademic.com/2011/04/25/stats-and-methods-urban-legends-1-formative-measurement/#comment-8158 jebyrnes Mon, 02 May 2011 21:57:16 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=1224#comment-8158 Formative measurements (aka, Compsite Variables) have come on in a big way in Ecology these days. I know, I know, different discipline. But, we use statistical tools such as Structural Equation Modeling for very different purposes with different types of measurements. As such, formative constructs are often quite relevant to us. It may be interesting to you to see how the kind of data one uses can help create a distinction, and aid in determining when one is more useful than the other. For an excellent discussion of this, see this USGS report by Jim Grace and Ken Bollen. Interesting stuff.

]]> By: disgruntledphd http://neoacademic.com/2011/04/25/stats-and-methods-urban-legends-1-formative-measurement/#comment-8022 disgruntledphd Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:47:07 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=1224#comment-8022 You might want to check out the in press section of New Ideas in Psychology, as there appears to be a similar discussion taking place there.

Thanks for pointing me towards the articles above though, they should prove very useful for my thesis methodology section.

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