In today’s episode, Greg and Patrick dig into Confirmatory Composite Analysis, a very clever way to get formative factors and their causal indicators into the traditional structural equation modeling framework, along with any other latent factors and their effect indicators that might already be in the model. Along the way they also discuss full-contact Wordle, […]
S5E08 Confirmatory Composite Analysis: Enter the Hexagon Read More »
In honor of April Fool’s Day, this week’s episode is about being fooled, specifically quantitative things that can fool you, accompanied by some classic songs about being fooled. Along the way, Greg and Patrick also discuss ukus, the spaghetti harvest, sucker!, meet the new boss, traditions of doing things wrong, naked garbage bag poker, old
S4E22 April Fools! The Quantitative Things That Fool Us Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick explore all the ways they lie about things when they teach, not the least of which is that there are actually no individual growth trajectories estimated in an individual trajectory growth model. They discuss why this is, how individual trajectory estimates can be obtained, and how these might
S4E14 Growth Trajectory Estimates…What’s My Line? Read More »
