RT Generic T1 Data quality and information loss in standardised interpolated path analysis : quality measures and guidelines A1 Lenz,Annika A1 Kaya,Muhammed A1 Melzer,Philipp A1 Schmid,Andreas A1 Witt,Josepha A1 Schoop,Mareike WP 2019/07/24 AB Standardised interpolated path analysis (SIPA) is a method to investigate negotiation processes making different negotiation histories comparable. Due to its interpolation approach, researchers employing SIPA must take data quality and potential information loss into account to maximise the method’s explanatory power. This paper presents quality measures and applies them to two negotiation datasets for deriving meaningful boundaries. Using these quality measures enables researchers to compare SIPA across segmentations, variables, and datasets also providing outlier analysis. K1 Pfadanalyse PP Hohenheim PB Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim UL http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2019/1647