First meeting - Jan 25

[liuzhen529]

1. Make sure there are four response variables: two for skills and two for information-processing proficiency. They are all continuous.

2. There are three groups of explanatory variables:

   1. {X1}: demographic factors (ages, gender, ..)
   2. {X2}: organizational contexts
   3. {X3}: learning/education (learning activities, education level…)

3. Rough plans: 1) Find the optimal model for each response: Y ~ {X1} + {X2} + {X3}

   • Use all variables first
   • Variable selection
   • Comparison, see which factor in {X1}, which in {X2}, and which in {X3} 2) Find the significant model each group for each response:
   • Y ~ {X1}, select the significant factors in demographic factors.
   • Y ~ {X2}, select the significant factors in organizational factors.
   • Y ~ {X3}, select the significant factors in learning/education factors. 3) Compare the effects among three groups.

[KellyHu]

I think your Y here should be Yi, where i=1,2,3,4 because we have four Ys. In my opinion, we should fit each x with each y respectively.

[liuzhen529]

Yes. I said for each response already.

[KellyHu]

Nice! Cuz I saw you specifying X as X1, X2, X3, but did not specify Y as Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4. Maybe we can write these down as well :)

Zhen: If you want, you could edit my post above and then we could divide our tasks. Thanks.