Publications by Jay Lasker

The Equal Environments Assumption

14.05.2020

Setup Functions #Multiple people have used this, not mine, good for subsetting a data frame CF <- function(D, DC) { CV <- complete.cases(D[, DC]) return(D[CV, ])} #Not mine, good non-Grob for assembling plots multiplot <- function(..., plotlist=NULL, file, cols=1, layout=NULL) { library(grid) plots <- c(list(...), plotlist) ...

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Observed Differences Do Not Necessarily Reflect Latent Ones

13.05.2020

Setup Packages library(pacman) p_load(lavaan, dplyr, knitr) Data Input Names = list("I", "S", "A", "V", "C", "DS", "PC", "PA", "BD", "OA", "CO", "HM", "GC", "NR", "T", "WO", "MA", "MS", "PS", "FP", "AR", "R", "RD", "RU") lowerw = ' 1 ...

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Millsap's Approach to Residual Invariance Failure

06.05.2020

Setup Functions MOES <- function(T1, T2, S1, S2) { ES = (T1 - T2) / (S1^2 - S2^2) return(ES)} Equations \[\sigma_{jk}^2 = \lambda_j'\Phi_k\lambda_j+\theta_{jk}\] \[\delta_{\sigma_{jk}^2} = \frac{\theta_{j1}-\theta_{j2}}{\sigma_{j1}^2-\sigma_{j2}^2}\] Rationale There are multiple effect sizes available for quantifying the effects of diffe...

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The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales are Unbiased with Respect to Migrant Background

01.05.2020

Startup Functions #Congruence coefficient formula because Psych's fa.congruence function is broken CONGO <- function(F1, F2) { PHI = sum(F1*F2) / sqrt(sum(F1^2)*sum(F2^2)) return(PHI)} Packages library(pacman) p_load(lavaan, semPlot, psych, qpcR, ggplot2) Data Input #Correlation matrices lowerNAT = ' 1 0.58 ...

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Ability and Prior Job Knowledge in Complex Training Performance

21.04.2020

Startup Packages library(pacman) p_load(psych, lavaan, semPlot, cowplot, gridExtra, ggplot2, knitr, dplyr) Functions #Congruence coefficient formula because Psych's fa.congruence function is broken CONGO <- function(F1, F2) { PHI = sum(F1*F2) / sqrt(sum(F1^2)*sum(F2^2)) return(PHI)} #ALTCONGO <- function(F1, F2) { # FA = mean(F1); ...

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Estimating Between-Group Heritability

16.04.2020

Startup library(pacman) p_load(ggplot2, meta, metafor, reshape2, latex2exp) Functions #Deviation methods #Jensen's (1973) between-group heritability BGHJ <- function(PM1, PM2, MO) { ME <- PM1 - ((PM1 - PM2)/2) MOD <- PM1 - MO MED <- PM1 - ME BGHAD <- MOD/MED if(BGHAD > 1) BGHAD <- abs(1 + (1 - (MOD/MED))) return(BGHAD)} ...

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A cross-cultural comparison between South African and British students on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales Third Edition (WAIS-III)

10.04.2020

Startup Packages library(pacman) p_load(psych, EGAnet, lavaan, qgraph, semPlot, qpcR, dplyr, tidyr, knitr, ggplot2) Functions #From Gunn, Grimm & Edwards (2019) SDI2.UDI2 = function(p, loading1, loading2, intercept1, intercept2, stdev2, fmean2, fsd2, nodewidth = 0.01, lowerLV = -5, upperLV = 5) { LV = seq(lowerLV,upperLV,nodewidth) D...

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Morbid Curiosity

07.04.2020

Startup library(pacman) p_load(lavaan, qgraph, psych, qpcR, ggplot2, igraph, semPlot) #d = read.csv("mcs_cfa_data.csv") #Let's see if we have all 24 variables we need (i.e., B1, B2, B4, B5, B6, B7, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M7, S1, S2, S3, S5, S6, S7, V2, V3, V4, V5, V6, V7) psych::describe(d) ## vars n mean sd median trimmed mad min max...

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Comprehensively Assessing the Jensen Effect

06.05.2020

Startup Packages library(pacman) p_load(psych, dplyr, kirkegaard, gridExtra, cowplot, meta) Functions #Congruence coefficient formula because Psych's fa.congruence function is broken CONGO <- function(F1, F2) { PHI = sum(F1*F2) / sqrt(sum(F1^2)*sum(F2^2)) return(PHI)} Rationale There is a lot of work assessing so-called “Jensen effe...

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Almost-sure p-values

12.05.2020

Rationale and Functions While reviewing a paper on palliative care for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH; Woods et al., 2020), I noticed that the authors stated that the confidence in their results was bolstered by their large sample size. I pointed out in m...

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