.................................................................................................................. 76 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT ........................................................................... 78

J. N. Cleveland and K. R. Murphy (1992) suggested that phenomena such as rater errors and interrater disagreements could be understood in terms of differences in the goals pursued by various raters. We measured 19 rating goals of students at the beginning of a semester, grouped them into scales, and correlated these with teacher evaluations collected at the end of the semester. We found signifi...

Despite considerable research on language production errors involving speech, little research exists in the complementary domain of writing. Two experiments investigated the production of homophone substitution errors, which occur when a contextually appropriate word (e.g., beech) is replaced with its homophone (e.g., beach tree). Participants wrote down auditorily presented sentences containin...

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rate substantially underestimates the true level of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in the labor force status in the Current Population Survey. During the period from January 1996 to August 2011, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are between 1 and 4.4 percentage points (2.1...

The experimental design plays an important role in every experimental study. However, if errors in the settings of the studied factors cannot be avoided, i.e. Berkson errors occur, the estimates of the model parameters may be biased and the variability in the study increased. Correction methods for the effect of Berkson errors are compared. The emphasis is on the study of correlated Berkson err...

Alamein; the case corresponds in neither age nor wound with Wainwright's example. The book has many irritating errors and a poor index. For example, the first child cured by penicillin broth is "a 3-year-old baby" on p. 42 but was clearly three weeks old, as witnessed by the illustrations, and Wainwright's own article; Rollin and Hotchkiss (neither appears in the index) was really Rollin D. Hot...

We investigated the reading of cAsE mIxInG and contrast reduction on word reading in patients with unilateral parietal lesions and attentional deficits. We show that, compared with control participants, the patients produce selective increases in lateralised errors when reading mixed case relative to same case words. However, there were not reliable increases in lateralised errors when words we...