Exam 15: The Logic of Multivariate Analysis

A relationship was found between education and income.Tables A and B are the partials controlling for sex.Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning the table?

Forrester found a strong positive relationship between participation in high school extracurricular activities and community involvement as adults.He controlled for amount of college and the relationship between high school extracurricular activities and community involvement was nonexistent for all three categories of college attainment.Which type of elaboration analysis is this?

A relationship was found between education and income.Tables A and B are the partials controlling for sex.What do these tables indicate?

Compare and contrast the differences between explanation and interpretation.Give examples of both.

An antecedent control variable is one that occurs between the independent and the dependent variable in time.

Forrester found a strong positive relationship between participation in high school extracurricular activities and community involvement as adults.He controlled for amount of college and the relationship between high school extracurricular activities and community involvement was negative for low college attainment,nonexistent for medium college attainment,and positive for high college attainment.Which type of elaboration analysis is this?

The acceptance of a hypothesis is really a function of the extent to which it has been tested and not disconfirmed.

In the following table set,the independent and dependent variables,respectively,are _______. Partial frequency tables for gender and desire to have children within the next 5 years.

The terms "test factor" and control variable are synonyms.

Which of the following would not be an example of sociological diagnostics?

When the partial relationship is essentially the same as the original relationship,the term specification is applied to the result.

Which one of the following statements is the most accurate?

Which elaboration paradigm is used to describe a spurious relationship? Give an example,and interpret the results.

What is meant by ex post facto hypothesizing? Why does it sometimes mislead inexperienced researchers?

According to the following model X  Y  Z

When partial relationships and original relationships are essentially the same,it is an example of

Mabel did a study on regional differences in Christmas gift-giving and,after observing the empirical relationship,she developed an hypothesis to explain the relationship.Mabel was engaging in

Tables A and B show that TABLE A: GOOD HEALTH TABLE B: ILL HEALTH

For a spurious relationship to occur,which of the following condition(s)is(are)required?

Forrester found a strong positive relationship between participation in high school extracurricular activities and community involvement as adults.He controlled for gender,and the relationship between high school extracurricular activities and community involvement appeared among the men but not at all among the women.Which type of elaboration analysis is this?