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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Intercept Bias"”.
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Comparative Validity of MMPI-A Scales Scores in African American and Caucasian Male Juvenile Delinquents
… measures. Significant overall prediction bias was detected in 15 out of 56 regressions. Statistically significant prediction bias was found for a subset of criterion variables for Clinical Scales 2, 4, and 9, as well as Content Scales <em>A-dep</em>, <em>A-hea</em>, <em>A-ang</em>, and …
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An Investigation of Gender Bias in the Personality Assessment Inventory in a Sample of Military Veterans of the United States
… was to examine the possible effects of gender bias within the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) as applied within the United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA). A quantitative descriptive design was employed using preexisting clinical data obtained from the Corporate Data …
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Examination of Racial Bias on the MMPI-2 Restructured Form among African Americans and Caucasians
… ambiguity concerning the possibility of racial bias on measures assessing psychopathology. The current study examined the extent to which the MMPI-2-RF is affected by racial bias. Using a sample of 1017 college students, the current study examined whether ethnicity acted as a moderating variable …
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Estimating pre-fire forest structure with stereo imagery and post-fire lidar
… photogrammetry height and density metrics with biases that were consistent with known differences in each sensor’s method of sampling the canopy. Regressions models of field-measured forest structure attributes incorporating both lidar and photo metrics demonstrated that a single equation could …
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Differential Prediction: Understanding a Tool for Detecting Rating Bias in Performance Ratings
… have been used to assess the existence of rating bias in performance ratings: the total association approach, the differential constructs approach and the direct effects approach. One purpose of this study was to examine how the direct effects approach, and more specifically differential …