Tilburg University

Incidence of thrombotic complications in critically ill ICU patients with COVID-19

COVID-19 may predispose to both venous and arterial thromboembolism due to excessive inflammation, hypoxia, immobilisation and diffuse intravascular coagulation. Reports on the ...

On the Use, the Misuse, and the Very Limited Usefulness of Cronbach’s Alpha

This discussion paper argues that both the use of Cronbach’s alpha as a reliability estimate and as a measure of internal consistency suffer from major problems. First, alpha al...

Applied Latent Class Analysis

Applied Latent Class Analysis introduces several innovations in latent class analysis to a wider audience of researchers. Many of the world's leading innovators in the field of ...

In transaction cost economics, trust has been treated as redundant or even misleading.This study tested the effects of governance and trust on the risk perceived by agents of fi...

The Choice of Stock Ownership Structure: Agency Costs, Monitoring, and the Decision to Go Public

From the viewpoint of a company's controlling shareholder, the optimal ownership structure generally involves some measure of dispersion, to avoid excessive monitoring by other ...

The Rules of the Game Called Psychological Science

If science were a game, a dominant rule would probably be to collect results that are statistically significant. Several reviews of the psychological literature have shown that ...