著者

Ryoji Matsuoka Tadahiko Maeda

出版者

The Behaviormetric Society

雑誌

Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.42, no.1, pp.19-35, 2015 (Released:2015-04-21)

参考文献数

35

被引用文献数

3 7

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This study explains neighborhood differences in people's attitudes toward education by utilizing nationally representative data from Japan. While previous studies have shown that individuals' socioeconomic backgrounds are related to their attitudes toward education, no study in Japan has addressed whether neighborhood differences in socioeconomic characteristics influence these attitudes. Therefore, this study aims to clarify whether a neighborhood socioeconomic factor (percentage of college graduates) differentiates people's attitudes toward education by employing multilevel structural equation modeling techniques. Results indicate some neighborhood differences in individuals' attitudes toward education; the percentage of college graduates in each neighborhood is associated with between-neighborhood differences. In other words, individuals living in a neighborhood with a higher percentage of college graduates have more positive attitudes toward education.

著者

Mingzhe Jin Masakatsu Murakami

出版者

The Behaviormetric Society of Japan

雑誌

Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.1, pp.63-76, 1993 (Released:2006-05-26)

参考文献数

9

被引用文献数

2 10 9

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Identifying the elements that make up an author's characteristic writing style is one of the keys to determining the authorship or authenticity of a literary composition. The present study, which constitutes a preliminary attempt to uncover such a key, focuses on the placement of commas in sentences, a matter that has hitherto been neglected, analysing the characters that commas follow in works by four authors. It is concluded that the placement of commas differs from writer to writer and may therefore be considered one of the features that makes up an individual literary style, thus providing valuable information for verifying authenticity and speculating on questions of authorship.

著者

Nicolaos E. Synodinos Shigeru Yamada

出版者

The Behaviormetric Society of Japan

雑誌

Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.40, no.2, pp.101-127, 2013 (Released:2014-09-11)

参考文献数

65

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This article examines characteristics of Japanese public opinion surveys during 1990-2009 and makes pertinent comparisons with the past. Public opinion surveys continued to increase with cities being the major contributor to that growth. Surveys conducted face-to-face and those that used drop self-administered questionnaires decreased, whereas mail surveys increased. Telephone surveys remained a relatively minor method, but increased substantially compared to before 1990. The use of Voter Registration Lists decreased; whereas there were increases in surveys that sampled either from the Basic Resident Registers or did not employ lists. For the 1990-09 period as a whole, the median response rate was 58.9% which suggests a steeper decline than the decreases observed in the past. Surveys sponsored by central government agencies had the highest rates and those by universities the lowest. Among studies that used probability sampling, the highest median response rates were for drop self-administered questionnaires followed by face-to-face and mail surveys.

著者

Hitoshi Motoyama

出版者

The Behaviormetric Society of Japan

雑誌

Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, no.1, pp.1-8, 2012 (Released:2012-05-16)

参考文献数

18

被引用文献数

1

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In this article, we study the limiting distributions of sample quantiles from a finite population. We give a simple proof of the asymptotic normality of sample quantiles for simple random samples from a finite population by employing the method of Wretman (1978). Some Monte Carlo simulation results are also included.

著者

Shizuhiko Nishisato José G. Clavel

出版者

The Behaviormetric Society of Japan

雑誌

Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, no.1, pp.15-32, 2009 (Released:2010-06-08)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

1 15 4

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The traditional quantification procedure (e.g., dual scaling, correspondence analysis) is extended in order to tap into information which is typically ignored. Noting that the traditional symmetric scaling yields a visual image of distorted data structure and recalling that the widely used practice of looking at data in reduced space may also miss capturing rare but key-information in total space, a method, called total information analysis (TIA), is proposed to subject not only within-set but also between-set relations in total space. Numerical examples are used to explain why TIA offers partial solutions to some theoretical problems inherent in the current practice of multidimensional quantification analysis.

著者

Ogasawara Haruhiko

出版者

日本行動計量学会

雑誌

Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.32, no.1, pp.9-28, 2005-01

被引用文献数

1

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Formulas for the asymptotic biases of the estimators of the normal theory standard errors in factor analysis are given with and without the assumption of multivariate normality for observed variables. The biases are derived from the asymptotic variances of standard error estimators and the asymptotic biases of the estimated variances of parameter estimators. The latter biases are derived from the asymptotic variances/covariances and asymptotic biases of the parameter estimators. The formulas cover the cases for unstandardized and standardized variables. Numerical examples using factor analysis models show the accuracy of the formulas. The biases of standard error estimators are theoretically and empirically shown to be of the same order as that of the differences between the asymptotic standard errors neglecting higher-order terms and those considering them.

著者

Hickendorff Marian Heiser Willem J. van Putten Cornelis M. Verhelst Norman D.

出版者

日本行動計量学会

雑誌

Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.1, pp.35-54, 2008-01

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The problem considered in the present paper is how to cluster data of nominal measurement level, where the categories of the variables are equivalent(the variables are replications of each other). One suitable technique to obtain such a clustering is latent class analysis(LCA) with equality restrictions on the conditional probabilities. As an alternative, a less well known technique is introduced: GROUPALS. This is an algorithm for the simultaneous scaling(by multiple correspondence analysis) and clustering of categorical variables. Equality restrictions on the category quantifications were incorporated in the algorithm, to account for equivalent categories. In two simulation studies, the clustering performance was assessed by measuring the recovery of true cluster membership of the individuals. The effect of several systematically varied data features was studied. Restricted LCA obtained good to excellent cluster recovery results. Restricted GROUPALS approximated this optimal performance reasonably well, except when underlying classes were very different in size.

著者

Inoguchi Takashi Uenohara Hideaki Ide Hiroko

出版者

日本行動計量学会

雑誌

Behaviormetrika (ISSN:03857417)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.1, pp.73-96, 2008-01

被引用文献数

1

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Does globalization have a positive or negative impact on democracy? One reason this problem has gone unsolved is found in the fact that most studies to date have not made systematic use of empirical data to test propositions concerning the relationship between globalization and democracy. While there have been studies that have made a pioneering systematic contribution through the use of macroeconomic and other aggregate statistics, this article empirically examines whether globalization enhances or constrains democracy by using cross-national survey data collected in 17 countries(the Asia-Europe Survey). Our empirical testing has shown that globalization tends to be positively correlated to democratic activism at the individual level, suggesting the possibility that experiences of globalization strengthen democracy.