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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"ordinary least squares regression"”.
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POSITIVE PEER CULTURE PROBLEM LABELS AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: AN EXPLORATORY PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS AND ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF LOW SELF-IMAGE, INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS, AND INCONSIDERATE OF SELF
… outlined in the literature. Findings based on ordinary least squares regression models suggest that the PPC problem labels are not significant predictors of general delinquency (i.e., status offense, property and person crimes, drug and alcohol) when accounting for other variables based on …
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POSITIVE PEER CULTURE PROBLEM LABELS AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: AN EXPLORATORY PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS AND ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF LOW SELF-IMAGE, INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS, AND INCONSIDERATE OF SELF
… outlined in the literature. Findings based on ordinary least squares regression models suggest that the PPC problem labels are not significant predictors of general delinquency (i.e., status offense, property and person crimes, drug and alcohol) when accounting for other variables based on …
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Genetic and Genetic-Feeding Regimen Interaction Effects on Lactation, Growth and Carcass Traits in Dairy Cattle
… compared using simulation. Estimated generalized least-squares regression of body-weight on age was a better estimator of ADG (gave lower mean square error of ADG and variance components) than the usual estimator, which itself was better than ordinary least-squares regression.
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Will SEEK Funding Help Bring Equity in Educational Output to Kentucky's School Districts?
… emphasizing Kentucky, past and present. An ordinary least squares regression analysis will be used to predict the success of the Support Educational Excellence in Kentucky formula. Success is defined as bringing equity of testbased outputs to all school districts. The model and variables are …
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The differential effect of anxiety on reading achievement in upper elementary grade students with reading difficulty
… prior to implementation of the intervention. Ordinary least squares regression and unconditional quantile regression approaches were used in order to better understand the relation along a distribution of reading ability. Results showed that the three anxiety measures were positively and …
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Trust in doctors: Is there a black-white difference?
… data from the 2002 General Social Survey and ordinary least squares regression to reexamine this issue. It was expected that blacks are less likely to trust their doctors than whites either before or after controlling for other predictors of trust. The results of the study support this …
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Applications of Linear Regression and Other Statistical Tools in the Study of Alcohol Sales
This study uses linear regression to model the relationship of alcohol sales as a function of economic and social variables. Data were obtained on the whole U.S. for this study's dependent variable of alcohol sales and independent variables of unemployment rate, personal consumption expenditures, …
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Effects of black racialization of public opinion on support for government financed health care
… National Election Survey Time Study (ANES) and ordinary least squares regression. Elite cuing is a contributing factor to the racialization of public opinion. The trend toward conservative ideology is often exacerbated black racialization. Results of this thesis support the hypotheses and are …
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Who Benefits? The Effects of Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investment on Human Rights
… civil and political, and subsistence. I perform ordinary least squares regression analyses with panel-corrected standard errors on a pooled cross-sectional time series design incorporating 127 countries from 1976 to 1996. While my results are not significant, it is important to observe that there …
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Suicide Terrorism: A Future Trend?
… counterpart. To test these hypotheses I used Ordinary Least Squares Regression and data provided by The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
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Inequality and School Performance: The Effect of the No Child Left Behind Act on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Test
… the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. A multiple regression model was used and included other factors such as socioeconomic status of students, teacher salary, school funding, and student-teacher ratio. Using an ordinary least squares regression, I found that socioeconomic status of students had …
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Structural Indicators of Index Crime Rates in Metropolitan Counties for 1990 and 2000
… based on 1990 and 2000 Census data are placed in ordinary least-squares regression models to predict crime rates for 10 different Uniform Crime Report types. Results support this hypothesis, as well as identify a number of other structural indicators that are consistently significantly correlated …
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Corporate Bond Liquidity and Investor Sentiment
… stories on a firm’s bond liquidity. I employ an ordinary least squares regression to examine the relationship between firm-level investor sentiment and corporate bond liquidity. The results indicate that a positive relationship exists between firm-level sentiment and corporate bond liquidity. …
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Economic Consequences on Gays and Lesbians of Heteronormativity in the Workplace
… for several correlates of income, I use ordinary least squares regression to test the hypothesis that lesbians have higher incomes on the average than straight women do, and that straight men earn more than gay men. I also use hierarchical regression to test the relative strengths of the …
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Model-Free Variable Selection through Sufficient Dimension Reduction
… takes a penalized approach. Both are rooted in ordinary least squares regression but with modifications to facilitate model-free variable selection. We also introduce a set of transformations for model-free variable selection. Finally we develop a stepwise procedure that is able to select …
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A TEST OF GENERAL STRAIN THEORY: EXPLORING GENDER SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL VARIATION
… delinquency typically examined in strain tests. Ordinary least squares regression, path analysis and a series of t-tests were used to determine variations in male and female emotional and behavioral responses to strain. The results of this analysis suggest that certain types of strain influence …
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A TEST OF GENERAL STRAIN THEORY: EXPLORING GENDER SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL VARIATION
… delinquency typically examined in strain tests. Ordinary least squares regression, path analysis and a series of t-tests were used to determine variations in male and female emotional and behavioral responses to strain. The results of this analysis suggest that certain types of strain influence …
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Involvement in Sports and Engagement in Delinquency: An Examination of Hirschi's Social Bond Theory.
… of the National Youth Survey were examined by ordinary least squares regression to determine if there was evidence supporting school sponsored sports programs as a means of reducing delinquency. No evidence was found to support the research hypothesis. Involvement in sports actually was …
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Association between the Fast-Food Environment and Obesity in Canada: A Cross-sectional Analysis
… in CCHS respondent’s FSA) was analyzed using ordinary least squares regression. Spatial clustering of BMI was also investigated and spatial-regression analysis was conducted. FSA-level fast-food density is significantly associated with BMI in Canadian adults, predominantly in females and …
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Social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minorities
… groups? The 2002 General Social Survey and ordinary least squares regression are used to test the hypotheses. Results indicate that whites maintain the least social distance to Hispanics, followed by Blacks and Asians. In addition, whites with a higher socioeconomic status, white women, …
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