This paper presents the R package anacor for the computation of simple and canonical correspondence analysis with missing values. The canonical correspondence analysis is specified in a rather general way by imposing covariates on the rows and/or the columns of the two-dimensional frequency table. The package allows for scaling methods such as standard, Benzécri, centroid, and Goodman scaling. In addition, along with well-known two- and three-dimensional joint plots including confidence ellipsoids, it offers alternative plotting possibilities in terms of transformation plots, Benzécri plots, and regression plots.

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Preference assessments are used in clinical settings to identify stimuli with reinforcing potential. The progressive-ratio schedule has shown to be useful in clinical assessments in identifying stimuli with stronger reinforcer efficacy that corresponds to formalized assessments.The current study utilized a progressive-ratio schedule to compare videos of high and low preference assessed by verbal reports of preference with college students. Results indicated breakpoints were higher for high preferred videos than low preferred videos for three out of five participants, but preference was not indicative of performance.

Thesis advisor: Mark Reeder / This thesis contributes to the proof of the conjectural local Langlands correspondence in the case of small residue characteristic. Let G be an absolutely simple split reductive group over a finite extension k of ℚ_p. To each point in the Bruhat-Tits building of G(K), Moy and Prasad have attached a filtration of G(K) by bounded subgroups. In the first main result of this thesis we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the first Moy-Prasad filtration quotient to have stable functionals for the action of the reductive quotient (this result is joint with Jessica Fintzen). Our work extends earlier results by Reeder and Yu, who gave a classification in the case when p is sufficiently large. By passing to a finite unramified extension of k if necessary, we obtain new supercuspidal representations of G(k) when p is small. Next we consider G = G₂. For this case we explicitly describe the locus of stable functionals on the first Moy-Prasad filtration quotient for every point in the Bruhat-Tits building. Our description is in terms of the invariant theory of SL₂ x SL₂. This allows us to construct a previously unknown representation π of G₂(ℚ₂) using the construction of Reeder-Yu. We then prove that there exists a unique Langlands parameter that satisfies the local degree conjecture of Hiraga, Ichino, and Ikeda with respect to π. We give an explicit construction of this parameter. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Mathematics.

Work by Blanchard-Fields has consistently found that older adults are prone to making dispositional inferences in certain contexts (Blanchard-Fields, 1994; 1996; 1999); however mechanisms underlying these tendencies have yet to be explored. The present study assessed the influence that personal belief has on attitude attributions made by both young and older adults. Using the attitude-attribution paradigm, participants made judgments about a targets actual attitude based on an essay that was written by the target. The essay contained a position on a controversial social issue, i.e. prayer in public school, that the target was instructed to advocate. Replicating past research, older adults rated the targets attitude to be more strongly consistent with the content of the essay than young adults did. Personal beliefs did not have a large effect on attitude attributions, however age and belief related differences appeared in both confidence ratings and as a function of attributional complexity. Fluid reasoning was also found to have an impact on attributions.

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Zugl.: Bremen, Univ., Diss., 2006

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nebraska, 1936. / Thesis note type-written on label mounted on t.p. "Selected bibliography": p. 72-74.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-146).