Objective: To examine the latent structure of a test battery currently being used in a
longitudinal study of asymptomatic middle-aged adults with a parental history of Alzheimer's …

In order to evaluate the effect of a policy or treatment with pre-and post-treatment outcomes,
we propose an approach based on a transition model, which may be applied with …

In this “position paper” we discuss the potential role of partial order theory in socio-economic
statistics and social indicators construction. We maintain that the use of concepts and tools …

Although many textbooks on multivariate statistics discuss the common factor analysis
model, few of these books mention the problem of factor score indeterminacy (FSI). Thus …

Over last two decades, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has had broad application by
the health sector internationally, including Hospitals systems and national healthcare …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose a practical conceptualization of the
balanced scorecard (BSC) to describe the mechanism producing creation of monetary value …

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a statistical tool for digging out hidden factors which give
rise to the diversity of manifest objectives in psychology, medicine and other sciences. EFA …

Some approaches to generating equivariant conditionally unbiased estimators of the factor
scores in a confirmatory factor analytic model are defined. In order to select among these …

A recent method to specify and fit structural equation modeling in the Redundancy Analysis
framework based on so-called Extended Redundancy Analysis (ERA) has been proposed in …

Response bias has long been recognized as an issue in the behavioral and social sciences,
especially in cross-cultural research. Transforming raw data into ipsatized data, individual …