I got my copy of Psychological Methods today and was reading the article by Peter Bentler and Albert Satorra titled "Testing Model Nesting and Equivalence" (about testing models in structural equation modeling) and I was somewhat shocked and surpised to see on page 117 a footnote that included a quote from the Wikipedia entry on "Continuous Probability Distributions". Now, Bentler and Satorra as no slouches but I find it hard to believe that they would cite Wikipedia especially for such a technical topic instead of a standard textbook on probability theory. I assume that the entry is correct and Bentler and Satorra are competent enough to know whether it is right or wrong. However, recently on the EdStat mailing list it was lamented by a few members about how some of the elementary statistics entries on Wikipedia were incorrect or needed modication.
Perhaps I have been limited in articles that I read but have research articles in the APA journals and those of professional organization been using Wikipedia as a credible source? If so, how widespread is the practice? This raises the question of whether or the extent to which students can/should use Wikipedia as source/reference instead of, say, journal articles. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2979 or send a blank email to leave-2979-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
