The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992b) has been criticized for the absence of validity scales designed to detect response distortion. Recently, validity scales were developed from the items of the NEO-PI-R (Schinka, Kinder, & Kremer, 1997) and several studies have used a variety of methods to test their use. However, it is controversial whether these scales are ...

The Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D) is one of the five most frequently used measures of depressive experiences. Previous research has suggested that the scale may consist of two separate factors of happiness and depression, respectively. However, recent methodological research has demonstrated that standard factor analysis cannot be used in this situation to demonstrat...

In 2003, the C++ committee accepted for TR-1 a proposal [Bro03a] to substantially enhance the mathematical facilities of the standard C++ library. Several discussions on the committee mail reflector and several follow-up documents [Pla03, Bro03b, Bro03c, Pla04] further addressed this issue. While the substantive content of the proposal has not been changed, nor have substantive changes been pro...

Drawing on the Cervero and Wilson theory of program planning as the negotiation of interests, the purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the distinction between meta-negotiation and substantive negotiation. A case study approach was used to examine a continuing education course in public health. Historically, the course had represented an attempt to implement federal immunization p...

This paper proposes a new approach to factor analysis and structural equation modeling using Bayesian analysis. The new approach replaces parameter specifications of exact zeros and exact equalities with approximate zeros and equalities based on informative, smallvariance priors. It is argued that this produces an analysis that better reflects substantive theories. The proposed Bayesian approac...