William W Rozeboom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1000633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William W Rozeboom |
| GIVEN NAMES | William W |
| FAMILY NAME | Rozeboom |
| SIGNATURE | ROZEBOOM W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Some Esoteric Aspects of SEM That Its Practitioners Should Want to Know
The topic of this article is the interpretation of structural equation modeling (SEM) solutions. Its purpose is to augment structural modeling's metatheoretic resources while enhancing awareness of how problematic is the causal significance of SEM-parameter solutions. Part I focuses on the nonuniqueness and consequent dubious interpretability of loop pathweights in nonrecursive SEMs: Solutions for a nonrecursive SEM's open parameters are strongly…
What Might Common Factors Be
Factor-indeterminancy Issues are not Linguistic Confusions
The Glory of Suboptimal Factor Rotation
Yet another facet of factor indeterminacy rears its ugly head: Factor rotation algorithms do not generally find the best solutions of which they are capable. But when enriched with the capacity to conduct repeated searches from random starting positions, a rotation algorithm's propensity to converge to optima that are merely local can be fashioned into a seine for catching interpretively provocative rotations of the input factors that might other…
Conceptual Rigor
Conceptual rigor is indeed a desideratum worth dedicated pursuit; in fact, one might wish that Chow had pursued it somewhat more diligently in his present essay. I suggest that the approach to data interpretation he advocates here is an etch-a-sketch draft whose prospect for refinement into an operational logic of inference that professional scientists can live by appears minuscule
Theory & Practice of Analytic Hyperplane Optimization
There are many procedural alternatives by which subjective rotation to oblique simple structure can be emulated analytically, some rather more effective than others. This article develops a theoretical framework for comprehending these, and reports performance tests for some major variants thereof when implemented within the HYBALL rotation program described elsewhere
Hyball
Want to rotate the latent variables you have found by some method of factor extraction to oblique simple structure while leaving invariant selected axes or subspaces in your initial solution? Here's how
Whatever Happened to Broad Perspective
Hypothetico-deductivism is a fraud
Hypothetico-deductivism is a fraud
U.S. Television Programs in the International Market
A microeconomic analysis demonstrates that the low level of prices charged by the United States when exporting expensive-to-produce drama is attributable to the low incremental cost of supplying additional copies of programs to other countries rather than to “damping” or any other unfair pricing practice
Nicod's Criterion
In a recent note, Horwich (1978) challenges the foundations of Hempel's classic paradox of confirmation by a clever example purporting to show that under Nicod's Criterion, data can be made to confirm a hypothesis with which they are logically incompatible. Specifically, Horwich observes that 'Pb ' (i.e., 'object b has property P ') is formally equivalent to ' ( x )(∼ Px · ∼ Pb ⊃ x ≠ b )'. The latter has form '( x )(ψ x ⊃ φ x )' with ' ∼ P___ · ∼…
Ridge regression
Ridge regression
On Behavioral Theories of Reference
Efforts to bare the psychonomic nature of the semantic reference (representation) relation have been remarkably scanty; in fact, the only contemporary account developed with any care is the one proposed by Osgood. However, not even Osgood has looked deeply at the difficulties that beset any attempt to analyze reference in terms of common effects appropriately shared by a symbol and its significate
Domain Validity—Why Care
A strict equivalence presupposed by Kaiser and Michael to derive the coefficient of "domain validity" is defensible only as a biased approximation. But then, it is far from clear what psychometric significance this coefficient has in the first place
The logic of unboundedly reactive systems
Estimation of cross-validated multiple correlation
The development of novel pressure sensitive adhesives, formed by the drying of a polymer latex emulsion, is hampered by a lack of understanding of the relation between microscopic details and the large-scale rheology. In a previous paper [Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5036] we introduced a coarse-grained computer simulation model that aims to provide such a link. To reach sufficiently large time and length scales each latex particle is represented by jus…
The Synthetic Significance of Analytic Statements
In his essay “Brains and Behavior” in Analytical Philosophy , edited by R. Butler, 2nd Series, Blackwell, 1965), Putnam has contended that Logical Behaviourism is not merely dead, its corpse has become olfactorily unattractive. For, says Putnam, while the translatability of mentalistic terms into the vocabulary of overt behaviour is no longer a live issue, innocent philosophers are still being corrupted by sinful urges of a Logical-Behaviouristic…
Dispositions Revisited
Subjunctive conditionals have their uses, but constituting the meaning of dispositional predicates is not one of them. More germane is the analysis of dispositions in terms of “bases”—except that past efforts to maintain an ontic gap between dispositions and their bases, while not wholly misguided, have failed to appreciate the semantic birthright of dispositional concepts as a species of theoretical construct in primitive science
New Mysteries for Old
Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores
This is a reprint of the orginal book released in 1968. Our primary goal in this book is to sharpen the skill, sophistication, and in- tuition of the reader in the interpretation of mental test data, and in the construction and use of mental tests both as instruments of psychological theory and as tools in the practical problems of selection, evaluation, and guidance. We seek to do this by exposing the reader to some psychologically meaningful st…
New Dimensions of Confirmation Theory
When Hempel's “paradox of confirmation” is developed within the confines of conditional probability theory, it becomes apparent that two seemingly equivalent generalities (“laws”) can have exactly the same class of observational refuters even when their respective classes of confirming observations are importantly distinct. Generalities which have the inductive supports we commonsensically construe them to have, however, must incorporate quasi-lo…
Foundations of the Theory of Prediction
Scaling theory and the nature of measurement
The fallacy of the null-hypothesis significance test
The theory of probability and statistical inference is various things to various people. To the mathematician, it is an intricate formal calculus, to be explored and developed with little professional concern for any empirical significance that might attach to the terms and propositions involved. To the philosopher, it is an embarrassing mystery whose justification and conceptual clarification have remained stubbornly refractory to philosophical …
Ontological Induction and the Logical Typology of Scientific Variables
It is widely agreed among philosophers of science today that no formal pattern can possibly be found in the origins of scientific theory. There is no such thing as a “logic of discovery,” insists this view—a scientific hypothesis is susceptible to methodological critique only in its relation to empirical consequences derived after the hypothesis itself has emerged through a spontaneous creative inspiration. Yet confronted with the tautly directed…
Do Stimuli Elicit Behavior?—A Study in the Logical Foundations of Behavioristics
It has become customary in modern behavioristics to speak of stimuli as though they elicit responses from organisms. But logically this is absurd, for analysis of the grammatical roles of stimulus and response concepts shows that stimuli and responses differ in logical type from causes and effects. The “S elicits R” formula thus stands revealed as elliptical for a more complicated form of assertion. The trouble with this ellipsis, however, is tha…
Estimation of cross-validated multiple correlation
The development of novel pressure sensitive adhesives, formed by the drying of a polymer latex emulsion, is hampered by a lack of understanding of the relation between microscopic details and the large-scale rheology. In a previous paper [Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5036] we introduced a coarse-grained computer simulation model that aims to provide such a link. To reach sufficiently large time and length scales each latex particle is represented by jus…
Dispositions Revisited
Subjunctive conditionals have their uses, but constituting the meaning of dispositional predicates is not one of them. More germane is the analysis of dispositions in terms of “bases”—except that past efforts to maintain an ontic gap between dispositions and their bases, while not wholly misguided, have failed to appreciate the semantic birthright of dispositional concepts as a species of theoretical construct in primitive science
Scaling theory and the nature of measurement
Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores
This is a reprint of the orginal book released in 1968. Our primary goal in this book is to sharpen the skill, sophistication, and in- tuition of the reader in the interpretation of mental test data, and in the construction and use of mental tests both as instruments of psychological theory and as tools in the practical problems of selection, evaluation, and guidance. We seek to do this by exposing the reader to some psychologically meaningful st…
New Dimensions of Confirmation Theory
When Hempel's “paradox of confirmation” is developed within the confines of conditional probability theory, it becomes apparent that two seemingly equivalent generalities (“laws”) can have exactly the same class of observational refuters even when their respective classes of confirming observations are importantly distinct. Generalities which have the inductive supports we commonsensically construe them to have, however, must incorporate quasi-lo…
Studies in The Empiricist Theory of Scientific Meaning
Part I is concerned with the tenet of modern Emperical Realism that while the theoretical concepts employed in science obtain their meanings entirely from the connections their usage establishes with the data language, the referents of such terms may be “unobservables,” that is, entities which cannot be discussed within the data language alone. Such a view avoids both the restrictive excesses of logical positivism and the epistemic laxity of tran…
The Logic of Color Words
The Logic of Color Words
Studies in The Empiricist Theory of Scientific Meaning
Part I is concerned with the tenet of modern Emperical Realism that while the theoretical concepts employed in science obtain their meanings entirely from the connections their usage establishes with the data language, the referents of such terms may be “unobservables,” that is, entities which cannot be discussed within the data language alone. Such a view avoids both the restrictive excesses of logical positivism and the epistemic laxity of tran…
Do Stimuli Elicit Behavior?—A Study in the Logical Foundations of Behavioristics
It has become customary in modern behavioristics to speak of stimuli as though they elicit responses from organisms. But logically this is absurd, for analysis of the grammatical roles of stimulus and response concepts shows that stimuli and responses differ in logical type from causes and effects. The “S elicits R” formula thus stands revealed as elliptical for a more complicated form of assertion. The trouble with this ellipsis, however, is tha…
The fallacy of the null-hypothesis significance test
The theory of probability and statistical inference is various things to various people. To the mathematician, it is an intricate formal calculus, to be explored and developed with little professional concern for any empirical significance that might attach to the terms and propositions involved. To the philosopher, it is an embarrassing mystery whose justification and conceptual clarification have remained stubbornly refractory to philosophical …
Ontological Induction and the Logical Typology of Scientific Variables
It is widely agreed among philosophers of science today that no formal pattern can possibly be found in the origins of scientific theory. There is no such thing as a “logic of discovery,” insists this view—a scientific hypothesis is susceptible to methodological critique only in its relation to empirical consequences derived after the hypothesis itself has emerged through a spontaneous creative inspiration. Yet confronted with the tautly directed…
Scaling theory and the nature of measurement
Foundations of the Theory of Prediction
New Dimensions of Confirmation Theory
When Hempel's “paradox of confirmation” is developed within the confines of conditional probability theory, it becomes apparent that two seemingly equivalent generalities (“laws”) can have exactly the same class of observational refuters even when their respective classes of confirming observations are importantly distinct. Generalities which have the inductive supports we commonsensically construe them to have, however, must incorporate quasi-lo…
New Mysteries for Old
Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores
This is a reprint of the orginal book released in 1968. Our primary goal in this book is to sharpen the skill, sophistication, and in- tuition of the reader in the interpretation of mental test data, and in the construction and use of mental tests both as instruments of psychological theory and as tools in the practical problems of selection, evaluation, and guidance. We seek to do this by exposing the reader to some psychologically meaningful st…
Dispositions Revisited
Subjunctive conditionals have their uses, but constituting the meaning of dispositional predicates is not one of them. More germane is the analysis of dispositions in terms of “bases”—except that past efforts to maintain an ontic gap between dispositions and their bases, while not wholly misguided, have failed to appreciate the semantic birthright of dispositional concepts as a species of theoretical construct in primitive science
The Synthetic Significance of Analytic Statements
In his essay “Brains and Behavior” in Analytical Philosophy , edited by R. Butler, 2nd Series, Blackwell, 1965), Putnam has contended that Logical Behaviourism is not merely dead, its corpse has become olfactorily unattractive. For, says Putnam, while the translatability of mentalistic terms into the vocabulary of overt behaviour is no longer a live issue, innocent philosophers are still being corrupted by sinful urges of a Logical-Behaviouristic…
Domain Validity—Why Care
A strict equivalence presupposed by Kaiser and Michael to derive the coefficient of "domain validity" is defensible only as a biased approximation. But then, it is far from clear what psychometric significance this coefficient has in the first place
The logic of unboundedly reactive systems
Estimation of cross-validated multiple correlation
The development of novel pressure sensitive adhesives, formed by the drying of a polymer latex emulsion, is hampered by a lack of understanding of the relation between microscopic details and the large-scale rheology. In a previous paper [Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5036] we introduced a coarse-grained computer simulation model that aims to provide such a link. To reach sufficiently large time and length scales each latex particle is represented by jus…
Ridge regression
Ridge regression
On Behavioral Theories of Reference
Efforts to bare the psychonomic nature of the semantic reference (representation) relation have been remarkably scanty; in fact, the only contemporary account developed with any care is the one proposed by Osgood. However, not even Osgood has looked deeply at the difficulties that beset any attempt to analyze reference in terms of common effects appropriately shared by a symbol and its significate
Nicod's Criterion
In a recent note, Horwich (1978) challenges the foundations of Hempel's classic paradox of confirmation by a clever example purporting to show that under Nicod's Criterion, data can be made to confirm a hypothesis with which they are logically incompatible. Specifically, Horwich observes that 'Pb ' (i.e., 'object b has property P ') is formally equivalent to ' ( x )(∼ Px · ∼ Pb ⊃ x ≠ b )'. The latter has form '( x )(ψ x ⊃ φ x )' with ' ∼ P___ · ∼…
U.S. Television Programs in the International Market
A microeconomic analysis demonstrates that the low level of prices charged by the United States when exporting expensive-to-produce drama is attributable to the low incremental cost of supplying additional copies of programs to other countries rather than to “damping” or any other unfair pricing practice
Whatever Happened to Broad Perspective
Hypothetico-deductivism is a fraud
Hypothetico-deductivism is a fraud
Conceptual Rigor
Conceptual rigor is indeed a desideratum worth dedicated pursuit; in fact, one might wish that Chow had pursued it somewhat more diligently in his present essay. I suggest that the approach to data interpretation he advocates here is an etch-a-sketch draft whose prospect for refinement into an operational logic of inference that professional scientists can live by appears minuscule
Theory & Practice of Analytic Hyperplane Optimization
There are many procedural alternatives by which subjective rotation to oblique simple structure can be emulated analytically, some rather more effective than others. This article develops a theoretical framework for comprehending these, and reports performance tests for some major variants thereof when implemented within the HYBALL rotation program described elsewhere
Computer Science (22 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Mathematics (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Statistics (8 works) · Econometrics (7 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (7 works) · Philosophy of science (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works)