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Title: Scalogram Analysis of an Index of Substance Use
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Kam, Chi-Ming Sayer, Aline G. |
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Scalogram Analysis of an Index of Substance Use Technical Report 98-24. University Park, PA: The Methodology Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Methodology Center, The Pennsylvania State University Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Gender Differences; Methods/Methodology; Modeling; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Scale Construction; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The goal of this report is to describe the creation of an index of alcohol use and assess the concurrent validity of the scale. We also report on the application to our scale development of a new technique for imputing missing data and we describe some considerations when using this technique with the types of indicators typically used to assess substance use. |
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Kam, Chi-Ming and Aline G. Sayer. "Scalogram Analysis of an Index of Substance Use." Technical Report 98-24. University Park, PA: The Methodology Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998. |