Murray Aitkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 635876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Murray Aitkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Murray |
| FAMILY NAME | Aitkin |
| SIGNATURE | AITKIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3877-7291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks
Do OFSTED Inspections of Secondary Schools Make a Difference to GCSE Results
The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) aims to improve school performance through inspection. A government indicator of a secondary school's performance in England and Wales is the students' success in examinations. The examination results of over 3000 OFSTED inspected secondary schools offering students for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination during the 1992 to 1997 inspection cycle were modelled statistically. …
Statistical Modelling Issues in School Effectiveness Studies
A Method of Fitting the Gravity Model Based on the Poisson Distribution
"In this paper, [the authors] suggest an alternative method for fitting the gravity model. In this method, the interaction variable is treated as the outcome of a discrete probability process, whose mean is a function of the size and distance variables. This treatment seems appropriate when the dependent variable represents a count of the number of items (people, vehicles, shipments) moving from one place to another. It would seem to have special…
Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Item Parameters
Maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters in the marginal distribution, integrating over the distribution of ability, becomes practical when computing procedures based on an EM algorithm are used. By characterizing the ability distribution empirically, arbitrary assumptions about its form are avoided. The Em procedure is shown to apply to general item-response models lacking simple sufficient statistics for ability. This includes models wi…
Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress
S ummary . The object of the study was to examine the statistical techniques available for the analysis of process‐product studies involving non‐randomised quasi‐experimental designs, and to demonstrate the practical effects of their use on the data from the Teaching Styles study (Bennett, 1976). Of particular concern were the ‘unit of analysis’ or aggregation problem, and the differential effects of treatment grouping by cluster and factor metho…
Dealing With Survey Data
Do OFSTED Inspections of Secondary Schools Make a Difference to GCSE Results
The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) aims to improve school performance through inspection. A government indicator of a secondary school's performance in England and Wales is the students' success in examinations. The examination results of over 3000 OFSTED inspected secondary schools offering students for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination during the 1992 to 1997 inspection cycle were modelled statistically. …
Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress
S ummary . The object of the study was to examine the statistical techniques available for the analysis of process‐product studies involving non‐randomised quasi‐experimental designs, and to demonstrate the practical effects of their use on the data from the Teaching Styles study (Bennett, 1976). Of particular concern were the ‘unit of analysis’ or aggregation problem, and the differential effects of treatment grouping by cluster and factor metho…
Dealing With Survey Data
Dealing With Survey Data
Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Item Parameters
Maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters in the marginal distribution, integrating over the distribution of ability, becomes practical when computing procedures based on an EM algorithm are used. By characterizing the ability distribution empirically, arbitrary assumptions about its form are avoided. The Em procedure is shown to apply to general item-response models lacking simple sufficient statistics for ability. This includes models wi…
Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress
S ummary . The object of the study was to examine the statistical techniques available for the analysis of process‐product studies involving non‐randomised quasi‐experimental designs, and to demonstrate the practical effects of their use on the data from the Teaching Styles study (Bennett, 1976). Of particular concern were the ‘unit of analysis’ or aggregation problem, and the differential effects of treatment grouping by cluster and factor metho…
A Method of Fitting the Gravity Model Based on the Poisson Distribution
"In this paper, [the authors] suggest an alternative method for fitting the gravity model. In this method, the interaction variable is treated as the outcome of a discrete probability process, whose mean is a function of the size and distance variables. This treatment seems appropriate when the dependent variable represents a count of the number of items (people, vehicles, shipments) moving from one place to another. It would seem to have special…
Statistical Modelling Issues in School Effectiveness Studies
Do OFSTED Inspections of Secondary Schools Make a Difference to GCSE Results
The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) aims to improve school performance through inspection. A government indicator of a secondary school's performance in England and Wales is the students' success in examinations. The examination results of over 3000 OFSTED inspected secondary schools offering students for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination during the 1992 to 1997 inspection cycle were modelled statistically. …
Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks
Computer Science (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Statistics (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Applied Mathematics (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Econometrics (2 works) · Latent class model (2 works) · School Choice and Performance (2 works)