Exam 13: Advanced Topics in Family Data Analysis

When conducting research on families it is common to ask multiple members of a family about the same experience or activity.However, which of the assumptions of multiple regression is violated in this situation?

It is rare to find data that are nested in any way.

A study examining a pair of twins who grew up in the same household would be an example of a fixed effects approach.

______ data require researchers to follow the same individuals over a long period of time.

A researcher interested in the effects of a single elementary school on the students who attend the school should use a multi-level modeling approach.

______ helps to separate the effects of time-invariant covariates from time-variant covariates.

Which of the following approaches is the most useful in separating the characteristics that are similar from the characteristics that are different in similar groupings, such as couples?

According to the text, researchers should try not to use data that are nested because they are too difficult to analyze statistically.

A researcher is interested in the development of mathematical skills in children.Which of the following methods would be useful for collecting panel data?

Parents can be nested within families.