Vine copulas are flexible multivariate dependence models, which are built up from a set of bivariate copulas in different hierarchical levels. However, vine copulas have a computational complexity that is increasing quadratically in the number of variables. This complexity can be reduced by focusing on the sub-class of truncated vine copulas, which use only a limited number of hierarchical leve...

Reporting practices in 194 confirmatory factor analysis studies (1,409 factor models) published in American Psychological Association journals from 1998 to 2006 were reviewed and compared with established reporting guidelines. Three research questions were addressed: (a) how do actual reporting practices compare with published guidelines? (b) how do researchers report model fit in light of dive...

Confirmatory factor analytic tests of measurement invariance (MI) based on the chi-square statistic are known to be sensitive to sample size. For this reason, Cheung and Rensvold (2002) recommended using alternative fit indices in MI investigations. However, previous studies have not established the power of fit indices to detect data with a lack of invariance. In this study, we investigated th...

Using a concurrent validation strategy, we examine the incremental value of a measure of actual person–organization fit (P–O fit) as a selection tool beyond cognitive ability for predicting continued length of service and performance for call center agents, a job with historically high turnover. P–O fit was operationalized as the correlation between managers’ descriptions of the work culture wi...

In cognitive modeling, it is routine to report a goodness-of-fit index (e.g., R or RMSE) between a putative model's predictions and an observed dataset. However, there exist no standard index values for what counts as “good” or “bad”, and most indices do not take into account the number of data points in an observed dataset. These limitations impair the interpretability of goodness-of-fit indic...

Objective: Limited research has examined the psychometric properties of death depression scales in Persian populations with cardiac disease despite the need for valid assessment tools for evaluating depressive symptoms in patients with life-limiting chronic conditions. The present study aimed at evaluating the reliability and validity of the Persian Version of Death Depression Scale - Revised (...