Questions tagged [composite]
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Validating the way of creating a composite score using elastic net
We have a dataset where we want to see the association of different personal/demographic characteristics and biomarkers with post-injury depression. For that, we first want to create a composite score ...
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Correct way to write about variation between 0 and 1
I computed a composite index that varies between 0 and 1. If the index goes from for example from 0.3 to 0.4 between 2010 and 2012, what is the correct way to describe this variation? The index had a ...
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What drives the test reliability of a composite based on three components?
Situation: A three part ability test with multiple-choice, essay, and oral components. I have scores for each of 110 test takers on each part and overall. The three parts are unequally weighted in ...
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High odds ratio for composite score created by ridge regression
This question is a follow up to one of my previous questions asked on this site. The goal was to create a composite score for biomarkers related to a binary outcome and then use that in a regression ...
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Asymptotic relationship between tests of compact composite nulls and one sided tests
A motivating example
Let $x_t\sim N(\mu,1)$ for $t=1,\dots,T$. Consider testing the null $H_0: \mu\in[-1,1]$ against the alternative $H_1:\mu\in\mathbb{R}\setminus [-1,1]$.
The natural (UMPU?) test ...
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Can I create a composite variable for my two dependent variables?
I am working with two dependent variables that are both measuring a country's level of nuclear security. The first variable is a country's nuclear security index rating (range 1-100). The second ...
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Comparing ways to create a composite score
Objective:
I have biomarkers $X_1,\ldots,X_p$ (all in continuous scale) and a binary dependent variable $Y$. Because $p$ is large (there are many biomarkers), I want to make a composite score ...
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Creating a weighted composite score from standardized lavaan latent beta weights that retains the scale of the original measures?
I did a latent factor analysis in Lavaan which had a good fit and gave me the following estimates of standardized beta weights for three latent variables called Eta1, Eta2, and Eta3.
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Binomial distribution for randomly drawn probabilities
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Probability theory can be a weird place sometimes. Here I was, confident in my insane math skills, trying to solve the following problem:
Let $N, \alpha$ and $\beta$ be given.
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Create a composite score from nominal, ordinal and scale data [duplicate]
I want to calculate a composite score for temper tantrums' severity. I want the variable to be dichotomous so that it represents normal temper tantrums and severe temper tantrums. Severe tantrums ...
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Composite Variables
I am getting a little confused with the idea of composite variables. If you have a bunch of (hyptertheical) features for house price regression such as #rooms, location, proximity to school, house ...
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Are there any good citations for the distribution of Hotelling's t-square statistic that don't assume a point null hypothesis?
Under standard assumptions, Hotelling's $t$-squared statistic,
\begin{align*}
t^2=(\overline{x}-\mu)'\hat{\Sigma}_\overline{x}^{-1} (\overline{x}-\mu),
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\begin{align*}
t^...
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Re-scaling standardized values
I am constructing an index composed of around 100 indicators aggregated in sub-index and these in an Index, among the indicators different types can be found: categorical, ordinal, interval and ratio.
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Bootstrapping confidence intervals for a non-linear combination of logit coefficients using R
I have a GLM with a logit link examining behaviours (success = 1, failure = 0) across several large datasets (n > 30,000). The IVs are standardised and centred.
I would like to produce a metric of '...
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Are the confidence intervals of logit model coefficients normally distributed?
In more detail to the above...
I have a GLM with a logit link examining behaviours (success = 1, failure = 0) across some quite large datasets (n ~ 30,000 to 3,000,000). The IVs are standardised and ...
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Composite Variables for simple and multiple regression
When I am supposed to create a composite variable using the sum or the mean method?
Thanks in advance,
Alex
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Regression: Can I use independent variables that are used to create a composite independent variable?
I'm considering an example where I'm creating a model to predict a binary categorical outcome to determine whether a tool will be successful (e.g. 1,0) over different periods of time. If I create an ...
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Difference between multivariate analysis and multicriteria decision analysis
What is the difference between multicreteria and multivariate analysis? Can they both be used to weight items in a composite index?
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Combining multiple measures into a single measure
I have a situation where I have a set of j distinct categories, let's call them C. I have measured C in i different ways for a number of observations. I want to find the category Cj that best ...
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Composite variable as DV. Can I include part of it as independent variable?
I am struggling to form a regression model as I have to explain financial performance of a company.
The problem is that I have a variable like Return on assets $\frac{ebit}{total assets}$ as a ...
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Why does my p-value increase when I account for multicollinearity?
I am running a multiple linear regression model and I have 8 covariates, 4 of them are highly correlated (r>0.7). So I created z scores and then created a composite. When I re-ran the model with this ...
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How do I combine (merge) two scales?
I mesured two constructs, intention to book a room (4 items) and intention to book from a web site (3 items), (Pearson correlation = 0.344**) I've been asked by a reviwer to merge the two scales. ...
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How do I derive a rating from two variables containing zeros?
I have a dataset of the performance of probands in an experiment. An observer watching the performance noted positive and negative performance remarks on a simple tally, and ended up with something ...
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Bayesian Hypothesis Testing with Fair Coin Flip
Bayesian binary hypothesis testing problem in equal priors and uniform cost assignment (i.e., $c_{ij}=1$ for $i \neq j$ otherwise $0$) setting:
Under hypothesis $\mathrm{H}_0$, the observation $Y$ is ...
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Testing significant differences in a composite measure
I am developing a composite score that pulls together multiple measures into one score for each group. Each measure is constructed as a percent (20% of customers met the measure, 60% of customers met ...
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Cronbach Alpha VS Composite Reliability: a big difference?
I've read elsewhere that Alpha is probably a low-bound estimate of realibility if the tau equivalence is violated (which is often is). An alternative was proposed which is the composite reliability. ...
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Hypotheses for the likelihood ratio test
My question is very simple and basic but it's confusing me.
Suppose we have a $p$-parameter vector $\theta =\{\theta_{1}, \theta_{2}, \cdots, \theta_{p}\}$ and I wish to do a likelihood ratio test. ...
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Creating a composite measure
I'm having trouble creating a composite measure. I have 5 different non-normal variables (all different scales). I'd like to create one score that takes into account these 5 variables. I can manually ...
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How to lower composite reliability
at the moment I'm evaluating a survey which contains some constructs with too high composite reliability values. The CR (composite reliability) values are above .95 which indicates redundant items. In ...
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Formative/composite variable as weighted additive index
I'm very new to SEM (and relatively new to stats generally). I would like to ask whether my plans generally sound reasonable before I get lost for days in the literature.
The model that I try to work ...
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Transformation of a Skewed Composite Outcome made up of 2 Z-scores?
I am running a repeated measures mixed model. For my outcome variable, I would like to sum 2 continuous variables, which consequently are both Z standardized in order to do so. However, my outcome ...
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z-scores in t-test
I would like to ask the following: I have two groups (patients, controls). I used the mean and SD of the control group to calculate z-scores from their results on a variety of tests. , both for ...
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How can I compose a new variable using data from different but strongly correlated measures
For my master thesis I'm preparing an individual patient data meta analysis based on data of four studies. In those studies parental psychopathology is measured by three different, but highly ...
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Calculate distances of a company branches from main branch in every state. How calculate distance for main branch in every state?
Suppose that I'm calculating distances of a company branches in every state from main branch of that state. After that I'm combining this feature with other features to creating a composite indicator ...
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providing mean, sd, and correlations in sem
it is advised to provide mean, sd, and correlations of the data as the best practices in writing sem. However, the books I read did not mention how to obtain or provide those scores from the latent ...
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Should I use a composite standard deviation for these multiple biological/technical replicates?
I used an ELISA to determine protein concentration from absorbance readings, which is a nonlinear relationship. I have 3 sample types, which are broken down into 3 biological replicates (per sample), ...
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Power of a composite test
I know that power function is defined as $\beta(\theta)=P(\mathbf{X}\in R\mid\theta)$, where $R$ is the rejection region. For a composite test, $\Theta_0^c$ is a set. How do we define "the power of a ...
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Creating a single index from several principal components or factors retained from PCA/FA
I am using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to create an index required for my research. My question is how I should create a single index by using the retained principal components calculated ...
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Combining several variables into one outcome score: How is it done in the machine learning community?
I have got 8 cognitive (continuous) behaviour variables and would like to combine them into a composite score. I would then like to find the best predictors of this outcome (from about 50 predictors).
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Creating composite vairables in Structural Equation Modeling
I was wondering if you can help me. I want to run a pathway model using composite variables. Each composite variable is made up of 3 or 4 observed items. To create the composite variable to draw my ...
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Likert scale based composite variables
I am conducting a small research into the adoption of smart home technologies for elderly people. In this research I have conducted both questionnaires and interviews, with the questionnaire being ...
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How to construct a regional severity index or riskiness score?
I have a set of regional variables for stroke that measures outcomes region wise. For example regional mortality for all ages for stroke, regional mortality for stroke for age group 65 to 75, regional ...
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How to create item parcels for a factor that is not unidimensional?
This is follow-up question by "How to create item parcels in SPSS Amos?"
My question is how to create item parcels for a factor that is not a unidimensional.
Several articles have mentioned that ...
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Composite Scores and Standardized Composite Scores t test
I have a set of survey data related to 20 survey questions. Each of these questions represent a variable (Q1, Q2,......
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Combining four factor scores into one composite scale
Is it possible to use exploratory factor analysis to extract four factors, and then combine these four factors (i.e. the factor scores for each observation) into a composite scale?
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How to rank criteria based on survey response?
I have made a survey to weight the importance of different features of a credit card using a 5 point Likert scale with scores (very important = 5...neither important or unimportant = 1). I have 8 ...
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Interaction Term Insignificant but Composite Variable Significant
I have 4 latent variables each with 3-7 indicators. I created a composite for each variable by summing the data and then mean-centering (variables have some collinearity issues, highly related). ...
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Can I combine several ordinal questions to create an index and/or composite measure?
I am using a survey that contains several questions about various dimensions of performance for policy research institutes. Here, performance in the policy arena is unpacked into things like:
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SEM or path analysis: Latent vars with individual items as indicators, or composite scores as observed vars?
I am unsure which analysis is more appropriate out of path analysis or SEM (Structural equation modelling). I am looking at the relationships between a number of variables which have been measured by ...
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Can I create a composite scale with Likert and non-Likert scale data?
I would like to create a composite scale for different attitudes by calculating the mean score from different items on a questionnaire. Most of the items use Likert scales however some of the items ...
