Southern California University for Professional Studies

Estimating Mediated Effects in Prevention Studies

The purpose of this article is to describe statistical procedures to assess how prevention and intervention programs achieve their effects. The analyses require the measurement ...

A Simulation Study of Mediated Effect Measures

Analytical solutions for point and variance estimators of the mediated effect, the ratio of the mediated to the direct effect, and the proportion of the total effect that is med...

Implementation of Evidence-based Practice in Child Welfare: Service Provider Perspectives

Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Mental Health Agencies: A Multiple Stakeholder Analysis

Objectives. We sought to identify factors believed to facilitate or hinder evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation in public mental health service systems as a step in deve...

Goodness-of-Fit Testing for Latent Class Models

Latent class models with sparse contingency tables can present problems for model comparison and selection, because under these conditions the distributions of goodness-of-fit i...

Retail buyer beliefs, attitude and behavior toward pioneer and me‐too follower brands

One potential source of pioneer brand advantage is retail buyers’ preference for pioneer brands. A model of pioneer brand advantage with retailers developed in the USA was teste...