Modelling repeated ordinal reports from multiple informants
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cross-informant associations tend to be low for reports of children’s behaviours at one point in time. The paper extends the literature on multiple informants using data from a well-known longitudinal study of Quebec, Canada, boys to show how to estimate associations between repeated teachers′ and self-reports of aggressive behaviour. These associations, for both level and change, are derived from multilevel models for repeated measures of variables best treated as ordered categories. The ordering is represented by sets of continuation ratios, change by linear and quadratic functions of age, and the multivariate models are estimated using penalized quasi-likelihood. The analyses also incorporate a risk variable: socio-economic status (SES). The correlations between estimates of the growth parameters for the two sets of reports tend to be rather small and smaller than the cross-informant associations for levels. SES is associated with levels of aggression, more so for teacher reports than for self-reports, but not with the decline in aggression with age.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.080 | 0.252 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".