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Can We Compare Solidarity Across Europe? What, Why, When, and How to Assess Exact and Approximate Equivalence of First- and Second-Order Factor Models

Frontiers in Political Science, 2021
Although measurement invariance is widely considered a precondition for meaningful cross-sectional comparisons, substantive studies have often neglected evaluating this assumption, thereby risking drawing conclusions and making theoretical ...
Vera Lomazzi
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Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. The Moral Vitalism Scale had been designed to assess moral vitalism in a brief survey form.
Maksim Rudnev, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Samira Aminihajibashi, Maja Becker, Michal Bilewicz, José Luis Castellanos Guevara, Emma Collier-Baker, Carla Crespo, Paul Eastwick, Ronald Fischer, Malte Friese, Angel Gomez, Valeschka Guerra, Katja Hanke, Nic Hooper, Li-Li Huang, Minoru Karasawa, Peter Kuppens, Steve Loughnan, Müjde Peker, Cesar Pelay, Afroditi Pina, Marianna Sachkova, Tamar Saguy, Junqi Shi, Mia Silfver-Kuhalampi, Florencia Sortheix, William Swann, Jennifer Yuk-Yue Tong, Victoria Wai-Lan Yeung, Brock Bastian   +30 more
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Best Approximation, Invariant Measures, and Fixed Points

Journal of Approximation Theory, 2000
Let \((X,\|\cdot\|)\) be a Banach space, \(M\) be a closed convex subset of \(X\) and \(p\in X\setminus M.\) For a given semigroup \(S\) let \({\mathfrak{S}}=\{T_s: s\in S\}\) be a family of nonexpansive mappings \(T_s:M\cup\{p\}\rightarrow M\cup\{p\},\) such that \(T_s\circ T_t=T_{ts}\), \(t,s\in S.\) Under additional conditions the authors show that ...
Bartoszek, W.K., Chinhanu, C.
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Cross-cultural invariance of the Spanish version of the COVID-19 Assessment Scorecard to measure the perception of government actions against COVID-19 in Latin America

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2023
Objectives The present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of a general measure of the perception of governmental responses to COVID-|19 (COVID-SCORE-10) in the general population of 13 Latin American countries.
Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Pablo D. Valencia, José Ventura-León, Carlos Carbajal-León, Lindsey W. Vilca, Mario Reyes-Bossio, Mariel Delgado-Campusano, Daniel E. Yupanqui-Lorenzo, Rubí Paredes-Angeles, Claudio Rojas-Jara, Miguel Gallegos, Mauricio Cervigni, Pablo Martino, Roberto Polanco-Carrasco, Diego Alejandro Palacios, Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, Antonio Samaniego-Pinho, Marlon Elías Lobos Rivera, Andrés Buschiazzo Figares, Diana Ximena Puerta-Cortés, Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes, Raymundo Calderón, Walter L. Arias Gallegos, Olimpia Petzold, Andrés Camargo, Julio Torales, J. Arkangel Monge Blanco, Pedronel González, Vanessa Smith-Castro, Wendy Yamilet Matute Rivera, Daniela Ferrufino-Borja, Paula Ceballos-Vásquez, Agueda Muñoz-del-Carpio-Toia, Jorge Palacios, Carmen Burgos-Videla, Ana María Eduviges Florez León, Ibeth Vergara, Diego Vega, Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Marion K. Schulmeyer, Hassell Tatiana Urrutia Rios, Arelly Esther Lira Lira   +41 more
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Semidefinite approximations of invariant measures for polynomial systems

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2019
We consider the problem of approximating numerically the moments and the supports of measures which are invariant with respect to the dynamics of continuous- and discrete-time polynomial systems, under semialgebraic set constraints. First, we address the problem of approximating the density and hence the support of an invariant measure which is ...
Magron, Victor, Forets, Marcelo, Henrion, Didier   +2 more
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Development of a latent dementia index in the aging, demographics, and memory study: Validation and measurement invariance by sex

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2023
Latent variable models can create a latent dementia index (LDI) using cognitive and functional ability to approximate dementia likelihood. The LDI approach has been applied across diverse cohorts.
Joseph Saenz, Christopher R. Beam, Alice J. Kim   +2 more
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Measurement Invariance of Liberal and Authoritarian Notions of Democracy: Evidence From the World Values Survey and Additional Methodological Considerations

Frontiers in Political Science, 2021
This article offers a gentle introduction to the measurement invariance (MI) literature with a focus on its relevance to comparative political research. It reviews 1) the conceptual foundations of MI; 2) standard procedures of testing for MI in practical
Boris Sokolov
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Comparing Depressive Symptoms, Emotional Exhaustion, and Sleep Disturbances in Self-Employed and Employed Workers: Application of Approximate Bayesian Measurement Invariance

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Studies investigating differences in mental health problems between self-employed and employed workers have provided contradictory results. Many of the studies utilized scales validated for employed workers, without collecting validity evidence for ...
Louise E. Bergman, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Aleksandra Bujacz, Constanze Leineweber, Susanna Toivanen   +4 more
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Approximation of Invariant Measures for Random Iterations

Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 2006
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Investigating the Relative Impact of Different Sources of Measurement Non-Equivalence in Comparative Surveys

Survey Research Methods, 2020
Different factors are known to affect the comparability of multinational, multicultural and multiregional (‘3MC’) survey data. These include factors relevant to the design of the questionnaire in different contexts (such as cultural differences in how a
Caroline Roberts, Oriane Sarrasin, Michèle Ernst Stähli   +2 more
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