Analytical challenges of testing hypotheses of agreement and discrepancy: Comment on Campione-Barr, Lindell, and Giron (2020). | Zendy

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Analytical challenges of testing hypotheses of agreement and discrepancy: Comment on Campione-Barr, Lindell, and Giron (2020).

Author(s) -

Robert D. Laird

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

developmental psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.318

H-Index - 213

eISSN - 1939-0599

pISSN - 0012-1649

DOI - 10.1037/dev0000763

Subject(s) - psycinfo , psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , test (biology) , significant difference , statistical hypothesis testing , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medline , statistics , paleontology , mathematics , political science , law , biology , computer science , programming language

Researchers are often inclined to test agreement or discrepancy hypotheses using difference scores. This commentary explains 2 mathematical-statistical principles underlying associations with difference scores and 2 conceptual-interpretation problems that make difference scores inappropriate for testing such hypotheses. The commentary provides examples of valid and invalid interpretations of difference score associations in reference to equivalent models. The commentary recommends testing agreement hypotheses using interaction terms and explains how to do so. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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