Publications

Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review

Agency theory is an important, yet controversial, theory. This paper reviews agency theory, its contributions to organization theory, and the extant empirical work and develops ...

An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.

Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era....

Addressing Moderated Mediation Hypotheses: Theory, Methods, and Prescriptions

This article provides researchers with a guide to properly construe and conduct analyses of conditional indirect effects, commonly known as moderated mediation effects. We disen...

Beyond Baron and Kenny: Statistical Mediation Analysis in the New Millennium

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Although the partitioning of a total effect into direct and indirect components in the manner described here do...

We have never been modern

What makes us modern? This is a classic question in philosophy as well as in political science. However it is often raised without including science and technology in its defini...

The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

Self-organized formation of topologically correct feature maps

Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

Without a complete published description of interventions, clinicians and patients cannot reliably implement interventions that are shown to be useful, and other researchers can...

Interrater reliability: the kappa statistic.

The kappa statistic is frequently used to test interrater reliability. The importance of rater reliability lies in the fact that it represents the extent to which the data colle...

Least Squares Support Vector Machine Classifiers

A Stochastic Approximation Method

Let $M(x)$ denote the expected value at level $x$ of the response to a certain experiment. $M(x)$ is assumed to be a monotone function of $x$ but is unknown to the experimenter,...

Cluster Analysis

15.3 Analysis Using R Sadly Figure˜15.2 gives no completely convincing verdict on the number of groups we should consider, but using a little imagination ‘little elbows ’ can