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consciousness-based education and Government* In the case of all intervention parameters for the variable I t, reported p-values are for aone-tailed test of the directional hypothesis of a positive impact on the dependent variableUSSR t. All other reported p-values are for a two-tailed test.Residual Variance Estimate 639.675 Effective Number of Observations 93Residual Standard Error 25.292 Ljung-Box Q for Lags 1-12 (8 d.f.) 3.1R-Square 0.597 AIC 620.869tion parameters were jointly significant, the latter parameter wasretained in the model (its retention also resulted in a lower AIC).The roots for the AR noise model were well outside the unit circle,and the quality of the model parameter estimates was high. 29 The ARestimates at lags 1, 5, and 6 were significant, while the parameter at lag11 was not quite significant at the .10 level (0.124, t = 1.60, p = .1096).The latter was retained in the noise model to minimize the AIC andimprove residual diagnostics.All residual diagnostics for the model were satisfactory. The plot ofresiduals appeared consistent with an uncorrelated white noise serieswith stable variance. No autocorrelations for the residuals were significantat lags 1–24, and the LBQ test was likewise non-significant forboth lags 1–12 and 1–24. 30 No extreme outliers were found that wouldbe likely to severely distort parameter estimates. 31 For the standardizedresiduals, the largest negative value was -3.03, while the largest positiveresidual was 2.63, a result consistent with normality (SR = 5.650, p >.10). Likewise, the null hypothesis of normality was not rejected usingthe Jarque-Bera test (Χ 2 (2) = 5.067, p = .080).In sum, this analysis of the Gorbachev hypothesis indicates thatthe positive estimated effect of the global World Peace Assembliesremained substantial and significant after incorporating a second interventionvariable in the model to measure the impact of Mikhail Gorbachevon Soviet behavior toward the US. In this expanded model, theeffect of the Assemblies was also found to be substantially larger thanthat attributed to Gorbachev.DiscussionThis study found evidence of a statistically significant impact of thegroup practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programon content-analyzed ratings of Soviet behavior toward the US476