In the Early 1990s, the State of Wisconsin Pilot Tested

question 54

Multiple Choice

In the early 1990s, the state of Wisconsin pilot tested a variety of welfare reform programs such as Workfare and Learnfare. These programs helped the federal government reform its major welfare program in 1996. This is an example of ______.

• A) authority policy tools
• B) taxing and spending
• C) the politics of problem definition
• D) use of real-world situations to develop policies

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Definitions:

Standardized Residual

The value obtained by dividing a residual by its standard deviation.

Studentized Deleted Residuals

Standardized residuals that are based on a revised standard error of the estimate obtained by deleting observation i from the data set and then performing the regression analysis and computations.

Residual Transformation

Residual transformation involves altering the residuals from a data model, possibly to meet the assumptions of linear regression such as normality or homoscedasticity.

Estimated Regression Equation

A formula that models the relationship between one or more independent variables and a dependent variable.