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The “Friendly visitor” program data: A reply to Denney
Author(s) -
Reinke Barbara,
Holmes David S.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00919380
Subject(s) - visitor pattern , health psychology , psychology , multivariate statistics , measure (data warehouse) , public health , social psychology , clinical psychology , statistics , medicine , computer science , mathematics , data mining , nursing , programming language
Conclusion In summary, Denney's failure to obtain the original results with her reanalyses can be attributed to the fact that she (a) scored some variables differently, (b) included an inappropriate subjects who was not entered into the original analyses, (c) excluded appropriate subjects who were used in the original analyses, (d) included an additional invalid dependent measure previously dicarded, and (e) may have used a different residualization algorithm. In view of these differences, it is not surprising that the multivariate and unvariate results that she obtained were different from those originally reported. We hope that now the procedural differences that account for the inconsistencies alleged by Denney are clear.