Correlated Error and Dimensionality of Beliefs about Hispanics (AJPS)
Attitudes toward Hispanics and Official English Policy
LISREL Analysis of Correlated Error
Title HISPANIC IMAGE AND ITS EFFECTS ON OFFICIAL ENGLISH, 1991
! Replication of Green and Citrin (1994) AJPS.
! The independent variable in this study is perceptions of the
! social/economic impact of growing numbers of Hispanics in the
! US. Data are drawn from the 1991 NES Pilot survey. The key feature
! of this analysis is the different results one obtains when
! allowance is made for the response biases associated with
! the “Hispanic Impact” battery of like-worded and consecutive
! questions. Two analyses are presented here. The first ignores
! nonrandom error in measures of the independent variable. (Note
! that the method factor (KSI2) is set to have zero variance.)
! In analysis 2, the method factor is assumed to contribute a
! constant amount of variance to all five impact measures.
! For further discussion of these and related topics, see:
!
!Green, Donald Philip and Jack Citrin. 1994.
!Measurement Error and the Structure of Attitudes:
!Are Positive and Negative Judgments Opposites?
!American Journal of Political Science 38: 256-81.
!
!Green, Donald Philip, Susan L. Goldman, and Peter Salovey. 1993.
!Measurement Error Masks Bipolarity in Affect Ratings.
!Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 64:1029-41.
!
!Green, Donald Philip. 1988. On the Dimensionality of Public
!Sentiment Toward Partisan and Ideological Groups.
!American Journal of Political Science 32: 758-780.
!
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! Analysis 1: Random Error
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DA NI=6 NO=436 MA=CM
cm fu fi=h:\classes\fall96\pls504\hsp91.cov rewind
SE
6 1 2 3 4 5 /
MO NE=1 NY=1 NX=5 NK=2 TD=SY,FR LX=FU,FI LY=ID,FI TE=ZE,FI C
GA=FU,FR
PA LX
*
1 0
0 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
PA GA
*
1 0
PA PH
*
1
0 0
PA TD
*
1
0 1
0 0 1
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 1
VA 1 LX(2,1) LX(1,2)
VA 1 LX(2,2) LX(3,2) LX(4,2) LX(5,2)
ST 2 GA(1,1)
ST 1 LX(1,1) LX(3,1) LX(4,1) LX(5,1)
ST .2 TD(1,1) TD(2,2) TD(3,3) TD(4,4) TD(5,5)
OU TO SE RS SS NS
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! Analysis 2: Random Error + Correlated Error due to Method
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DA NI=6 NO=436 MA=CM
cm fu fi=h:\classes\fall96\pls504\hsp91.cov rewind
SE
6 1 2 3 4 5 /
MO NE=1 NY=1 NX=5 NK=2 TD=SY,FR LX=FU,FI LY=ID,FI TE=ZE,FI C
GA=FU,FR
PA LX
*
1 0
0 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
PA GA
*
1 0
PA PH
*
1
0 1
PA TD
*
1
0 1
0 0 1
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 1
VA 1 LX(2,1) LX(1,2)
VA 1 LX(2,2) LX(3,2) LX(4,2) LX(5,2)
VA .18 PH(2,2)
ST 2 GA(1,1)
ST 1 LX(1,1) LX(3,1) LX(4,1) LX(5,1)
ST .2 TD(1,1) TD(2,2) TD(3,3) TD(4,4) TD(5,5)
OU TO SE RS SS NS