DESCRIPTORS RESEARCH, *PREDICTIVE MEASUREMENT, *AGILITY IDENTIFICATION, *COLLEGE SOUND STUDENTS, *GRADE PREDICTION, PREDICTIVt ABILITY (TESTING), COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL PATTERNS, PROBABILITY THEORY, FACTOR ANALYSIS, FACTOR STRUCTURE, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, GUILFORD ZIMMERMAN APTITUDE SURVEY. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUC. PSYCHOL. EXAM, COOPERATIVE ENGLISH ...

McCrae and Costa (1990) argued that “personality change is the exception rather than the rule after age 30; somewhere in the decade between 20 and 30, individuals attain a configuration of traits that will characterize them for years to come” (p. 10). Ten years later, two metaanalyses were published on the rank-order consistency (or differential stability) of personality traits. Roberts and Del...

BACKGROUND Independence between observations is a standard prerequisite of traditional statistical tests of association. This condition is, however, violated when autocorrelation is present within the data. In the case of variables that are regularly sampled in space (i.e. lattice data or images), such as those provided by remote-sensing or geographical databases, this problem is particularly a...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the concentrations of calcium (Ca), inorganic phosphate (Pi) and fluoride (F) in carious dentin and in different layers of sound dentin. The samples examined were 52 permanent teeth (26 sound and 26 carious), which were subjected to two experiments to assess the mineral content of: 1) two layers (internal and external) of sound dentin and 2) sound and cario...

This paper introduces a complement statistical test for distinguishing between the predictive accuracy of two sets of forecasts. We propose a non-parametric test founded upon the principles of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test, referred to as the KS Predictive Accuracy (KSPA) test. The KSPA test is able to serve two distinct purposes. Initially, the test seeks to determine whether there exists a...