Background: Childbearing is considered to be one of the main purposes of marriage in Iranian culture.  The aim of this study was to assess relationships among age of marriage, religious and educational levels, participation of couples in childbearing and finical status with childbearing motivation using structural equation model. Materials and Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of pre...

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the structure of difficult concepts learning within the classroom. The sample of the study was 18 fourth grade students in Central Taiwan, and the exam tools were produced by teachers for math exams. In this paper, a combination of the Rasch Model GSP chart analysis theory, the misconception domain, the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and Grey Str...

Students take into account different factors in their choice of university studies and college. Some are global, as the quality of the degree (ratio available places/firstchoice places in, cut-off grade, etc.), and others are subjective factors (e.g.: my friends are also taking this degree). In this work we present a partial multivariate model that takes into account the weight of the different...

Despite their popularity, many questions about the algebraic constraints imposed by linear structural equation models remain open problems. For causal discovery, two of these problems are especially important: the enumeration of the constraints imposed by a model, and deciding whether two graphs define the same statistical model. We show how the half-trek criterion can be used to make progress ...

Despite their popularity, many questions about the algebraic constraints imposed by linear structural equation models remain open problems. For causal discovery, two of these problems are especially important: the enumeration of the constraints imposed by a model, and deciding whether two graphs define the same statistical model. We show how the half-trek criterion can be used to make progress ...

Structural equation model (SEM) trees are data-driven tools for finding variables that predict group differences in SEM parameters. build upon the decision tree paradigm by growing structures divide a data set recursively into homogeneous subsets. In past research, have been estimated predominantly with R package semtree . The original algorithm selects split among covariates calculating likeli...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to extend Hodges’ model of relationships between financial planning for retirement with psychosocial variables to predict both objective and subjective measures of financial planning. Second, to apply that model to a representative sample of immigrants in Europe provided by the first wave of SHARE study. Data from 1272 immigrants in Europe were obtained ...

This study investigates the relationship between market orientation, intellectual capital, and new product success, and integrates the internal and external views to examine the effects of market orientation and intellectual capital on new product success. Travel agencies within the Taiwan tourism industry were targeted. A questionnaire was mailed to 1000 agencies, yielding 182 valid survey ins...