Multiple Causes and Stacked Inferences

The Blicket Within: Preschoolers' Inferences About Insides and Causes.

Four experiments examined children's inferences about the relation between objects' internal parts and their causal properties. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds recognized that objects with different internal parts had different causal properties, and those causal properties transferred if the internal part moved to another object. In Experiment 2, 4-year-olds made inferences from an object's inter...

When Are Inferences from Multiple Imputation Valid?

Multiple imputation, as described by Rubin, has seen a wide variety of applications. Counterexamples, presented by Fay (1991), and new methods, such as those of J.N.K. Rao and J. Shao, that can asymptotically disagree with the multiple imputation approach, have raised questions about the validity of multiple imputation. This paper identifies critical restrictions on the practical application of...

Spreading and Isolating Multiple Stacked Cards using Absorptive Hole Array

A new approach to the separation of multiple stacked cards is presented. Separation of multiple stacked cards is a key operation in many mechatronic devices such as copy machines and cash dispensers. Separation must be performed in small operation area despite of water and oil on the cards. In this article, we will develop a new system to separate multiple stacked cards using an array of absorp...

Investigating Gender and Major DIF in the Iranian National University Entrance Exam Using Multiple-Indicators Multiple-Causes Structural Equation Modelling

The generalizability aspect of Construct validity, as proposed by Messick (1989), requires that a test measures the same trait across different samples from the same population. Differential Item functioning (DIF) analysis is a key component in the fairness evaluation of educational tests. University entrance exam for the candidates who seek admission into master's English programs (MEUEE) at I...

The automatic and co-occurring activation of multiple social inferences