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ERIC Number: ED211560
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1981-May
Pages: 42
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Normalization Ridge Regression in Practice II: The Estimation of Multiple Feedback Linkages.
Bulcock, J. W.
The use of the two-stage least squares (2 SLS) procedure for estimating nonrecursive social science models is often impractical when multiple feedback linkages are required. This is because 2 SLS is extremely sensitive to multicollinearity. The standard statistical solution to the multicollinearity problem is a biased, variance reduced procedure known as ridge regression (RR). However, RR is a stochastic solution when it should be nonstochastic, and does not meet the boundary condition; thus, a new ridge technique called normalization ridge regression (NR) is proposed. When NR is used in an analogous fashion to 2 SLS it should theoretically provide a superior solution to multiple feedback estimating problems than either 2 SLS or 2 SRR. All three techniques (2 SLS, 2 SRR, and 2 SNR) are used to estimate a multiple feedback model of school science achievement for a national probability sample of Finnish 14 year-olds. The 2 SNR estimates were compared to both 2 SLS and 2 SRR estimates. In general, the 2 SNR results were the most consistent and confirmed the posited advantages of the biased, variance-reduced 2 SNR procedure over the other nonrecursive estimating methods. (Author/DWH)
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
Sponsor: Swedish Inst., Stockholm.; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario).; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Ottawa (Ontario).; Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Inst. of Theology.
Authoring Institution: Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Psychology.
Identifiers - Location: Finland
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