Multiple Indicators: An Introduction / Edition 1

by John L. Sullivan, Stanley Feldman

Overview

A presentation and critique of the use of multiple measures of theoretical concepts for the assessment of validity (using the multi-trait multi-method matrix) and reliability (using multiple indicators with a path analytic framework).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803913691
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/01/1979
Series:	Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series , #15
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

John L. Sullivan is Associate Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. He earned his B.A. in German and Media Studies from Pomona College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sullivan’s research explores the links between media industries and systems of social and economic power. More specifically, he focuses on audience constructions within media organizations, the implementation of U.S. media policies, and the political economy of cultural production. Recently, Dr. Sullivan has begun a longer-term project to study the political economy of free, open source software (F/OSS) movements.

Areas of Interest:
Political Behavior: political psychology and socialization; political ideology and values; prejudice and intolerance; public opinion; political participation; political sociology.
Methodology: statistics; econometrics; measurement theory and scaling; analysis of covariance structures; multivariate methods; survey research methods; logic of inquiry and research design.

Table of Contents

	Editor's Introduction	5
	Preface	8
	Introduction	9
	Validity, Reliability, and Multiple Indicators	16
	Campbell and Fiske's Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix	17
	An Application of the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix to Achievement Motivation	25
	Costner's Multiple-Indicator Approach to Reliability Assessment	28
	Extensions to More Concepts	35
	Extensions to More Indicators	38
	An Example Applying Costner's Procedures	40
	Critique of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix	47
	Multiple-Indicator Models for Panel Data	56
	Applications to Panel Data of Party Identification and Attitudes Toward Political Parties	66
	Conclusions	70
	Hypothesis Testing	70
	Estimation	73
	Multiple-Indicator Models: Some Final Considerations	75
Appendix A	Some Basic Statistical Concepts	76
	Populations and Samples	76
	Parameters and Estimates	76
	Bias and Efficiency	77
	Identification	77
Appendix B	The Wiley and Wiley Three-Wave, One-Indicator Model	79
	Notes	82
	References	84