Quantitative Methods Colloquium
QM Colloquium Series ArchiveFor current QM Colloquium Series schedule, see this page. Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 |
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| August 31 | Teaching students how to spend statistical money to purchase effective behavioral models: Degrees-of-freedom and goodness-of-fit as the foundation of psychological science Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| September 14 | Parameterizing nontraditional aspects of change as random coefficients Kris Preacher, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| September 28 | Conscientiousness, education, and longevity of high ability individuals Peter Savelyev, Vanderbilt Department of Economics |
| November 2 | Uses of structural equation mixture models in psychological research Dan Bauer, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Psychology |
| November 16 | Why 'random item' response models? Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| January 28 | Individual influence on model selection Sonya Sterba, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| February 15 | Galileo and significance testing versus Newton and mathematical modeling: Revolution, backward and forward Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Special time: Friday, 2:40 - 3:40. |
| February 25 | Spatial ability: Its unique role in creativity and technical innovation Harrison Kell, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 11 | Comparing value-added models for estimating individual teacher effects on a statewide basis: Simulations and empirical analyses Gary T. Henry, Vanderbilt Dept. of Leadership, Policy, & Organizations |
| April 8 | When can nonrandomized experiments approximate results from randomized experiments: Some findings and hypotheses Will Shadish, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of California, Merced Special location: Hobbs 100B |
| May 8 | Covariate balancing propensity score for improving the empirical performance of propensity score methods Kosuke Imai, PhD, Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special location and time: Wyatt 223, Wednesday, 2:30 - 4:00. [Jointly sponsored with ] |
Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 |
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| August 26 | Organizational meeting; we will introduce faculty and graduate students, and discuss scheduling |
| September 9 | What happens to mathematically precocious youth identified at age 12? David Lubinski, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| September 16 | Journal club: Discussion of Fisher's first ANOVA article |
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September 23 |
Doing sibling research with the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY): Methodological and substantive issues Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| September 30 | Faculty teaching workshop: Particular challenges teaching statistics and methods courses |
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October 4 |
Biometric nonlinear growth curves for cognitive development among NLSY children and youth David Bard, Director, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Biometry Section Special time: Friday, 2:00 |
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October 7 |
Univariate sampling bootstrap procedures using prior information Will Beasley, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
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October 21 |
Bayesian inference in psychology Jeff Rouder, Middlebush Professor of Social Sciences, Psychological Sciences, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Missouri Special time and location: 112 Wilson Hall, 2:00-3:00 |
| Ìý | Doing Bayesian inference in psychology: Using the Bayes Factor package in R Jeff Rouder, Middlebush Professor of Social Sciences, Psychological Sciences, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Missouri Special time and location: 112 Wilson Hall, 3:00-5:00 |
| November 4 | Relative and absolute judgments in eyewitness identification Scott Gronlund, Depts. of Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Oklahoma and äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Illinois |
| November 11 | Journal club: Discussion of Stangl (2007) Chance magazine article on teaching and research |
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November 18 |
Choosing repeated measurement occasions to minimize bias and maximize efficiency Kris Preacher, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
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January 20 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; no meeting |
| January 27 | Research using public NCAA data: SCORE data, APR data, and other athletic research initiatives Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| February 3 | Journal club: Discussion of Cowles & Davis (1982), On the origin of the .05 level of significance |
| February 10 | Can broad inferences be drawn from lottery analyses of school choice programs? An exploration of appropriate sensitivity analyses Ron Zimmer, Vanderbilt Dept. of Leadership, Policy, & Organizations |
| February 17 | Teaching forum: Vanderbilt faculty discuss curriculum differences since we were in graduate school |
| February 24 | Profound intellectual talent: A compelling phenotype for educational policy, behavioral genetic, and neuroscience inquiry David Lubinski, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Reading: Seashore (1922) |
| March 3 | Spring break; no meeting |
| March 10 | Analyses of instructional intervention data: Challenges and item response theory perspective Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 17 | Teaching forum: Vanderbilt faculty and QM graduate students discuss QM curriculum changes of the future |
| March 24 | Fitting nonlinear latent growth curve models with individually-varying time points Sonya Sterba, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 31 | Journal club: Discussion of Mook (1983), In defense of external invalidity |
| April 7 | Does maternal smoking during pregnancy cause offspring disruptive behavior? Insights from quasi-experimental designs Brian D'Onofrio, Indiana äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences |
| April 11 | Student presentations |
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Alexandria Hadd S. Mason Garrison Mark Lachowicz Woo-yeol Lee |
| Ìý | Special time: Friday, 3:00 - 4:30 |
| April 25 | A psychometric modeling framework for diagnosing students' misconceptions Laine P. Bradshaw, Quantitative Methodology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Georgia Dept. of Educational Psychology Special time: Friday, 3:00 - 4:30 |
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 |
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September 8 |
Organizational meeting Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| September 15 | Journal club: Discussion of Sharpe (2013) article on resistance to statistical innovation Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| September 22 | Are high achievers wrecked by their success? Examining career accomplishment's association with family, well-being, and health outcomes Harrison Kell, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| September 29 | Research workshop Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 3 | Within-subjects mediation analysis: A path-analytic framework Andrew F. Hayes, Quantitative Psychology, The Ohio State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology Special time: Friday, 1:00 - 2:00; Location: Hobbs 100B |
| October 7 | Analysis and interpretation of circumplex data Michael W. Browne, Quantitative Psychology, The Ohio State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology Special time: Tuesday, 3:30 - 4:30; Location: Hobbs 105 |
| October 13 | Rater agreement is not rater reliability: Some theory and data from machine-and-human scored essays Alan Nicewander, Pacific Metrics, Inc. (An ACT Company) |
| October 27 | Research workshop Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| November 3 | Using graphs to tell research stories, from many different perspectives Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| November 10 | Journal Club: Discussion of Marsh, Morin, Parker, & Kaur (2014) article on exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM). Kris Preacher, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| November 17 | Inducting students into practices of modeling data Richard Lehrer and Mayumi Shinohara, Vanderbilt Dept. of Teaching & Learning |
| December 1 | The odds ratio and its alternatives: Measure-specificity of effects Andrew Tomarken, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology |
| January 26 | Organizational meeting; QM exercise |
| February 2 | Journal Club: Discussion of Diaconis & Efron (1983) article on bootstrapping Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| February 9 | Correlation spaces: Where did all the Gramian matrices go? Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| February 16 | Inclement weather - no forum meeting |
| February 23 |
Laurie Cutting,Vanderbilt Dept. of Special Education Postponed until further notice |
| March 2 | Spring break - no forum meeting |
| March 9 | No forum meeting |
| March 16 | After differential item functioning (DIF) is detected: IRT item calibration and scoring in the presence of DIF Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 23 | Views on the past, present, and future of quantitative methods Jim Steiger, interviewed by David Lubinski, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 30 | Approaches for analyzing partially nested data Sonya Sterba, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 6 |
Mark Lachowicz, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Mason Garrison, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 13 |
Jason Rights, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Woo-yeol Lee, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Ali Hadd, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 |
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| September 14 | Organizational meeting; we will introduce faculty and graduate students, and discuss scheduling Special time: Friday, 2:30 - 3:30. |
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September 21 |
Detecting latent bivariate nonlinearity with confidence envelopes: A semiparametric approach Jolynn Pek, Quantitative Methods, York äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology |
| September 28 | Neurobiological correlates of language and reading Laurie Cutting,Vanderbilt Dept. of Special Education |
| October 5 | Journal club: Discussion of unit weighted regression articles |
| October 12 | SMEP presentations Kris Preacher, Joe Rodgers, and Sonya Sterba, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 19 | Teaching forum: Managing classroom problems in college classes |
| October 26 | Coping with poor replicability in psychology Paul De Boeck, Quantitative Psychology, The Ohio State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology |
| November 2 | Journal club: Recent articles on replication |
| November 9 | Teaching odds ratios in an undergraduate statistics course Shane Hutton, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| November 23 | Thanksgiving break; no meeting |
| November 30 | Statistical cartoons that teach Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| January 14 | Cognitive diagnosis for modeling and detection of learning Jeff Douglas, Dept. of Statistics, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| January 25 | Functional multiple-set canonical correlation analysis: A method for integrating various sources of functional data Heungsun Hwang, Quantitative Psychology & Modelling, Dept. of Psychology, McGill äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| February 1 | Journal club: Discussion of HARKing articles |
| February 8 | Teaching forum: Using Power Point in the QM classroom |
| February 15 | A problem, a method, and a dataset: Addressing selection bias in social science research using sibling control methods with the NLSY data Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| February 22 | Some computational advances in Bayesian SEM Ed Merkle, Quantitative Psychology, Psychological Sciences, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Missouri |
| February 29 | Journal club: Discussion of hazard modeling articles |
| March 21 | What the H? The role of measurement quality in model and parameter assessment in structural equation modeling Gregory Hancock, Measurement, Statistics & Evaluation, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Maryland |
| March 28 | Modeling learning in doubly multilevel binary longitudinal data using generalized linear mixed models: An application to measuring and explaining word learning Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 4 |
Patrick O'Keefe, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Woo-yeol Lee, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 11 |
Ali Hadd, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Mark Lachowicz, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 18 |
Mason Garrison, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Jason Rights, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
Fall 2016 - Spring 2017 |
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| September 12 | Organizational meeting; we will introduce faculty and graduate students, and discuss scheduling |
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September 19 |
Reducing adolescent risky behaviors in a high-risk context: The effects of unconditional cash transfers in South Africa Carolyn Heinrich, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations |
| September 26 | Discussion topic: Letters from the editor in the publication process (rejection letters, acceptance letters, rejection letters that look like acceptance letters, and acceptance letters that look like rejection letters) |
| October 3 | Simpler isn't better, it's just simpler: OLS regression weights make better predictions than simple alternative weights in realistic simulations Michael Nelson, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 10 | How quant methods informs policymaking in the airline industry Carolyn Ezzell, Vice President (retired) of Delta Airlines, Atlanta and London |
| October 17 |
SMEP presentations
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| October 24 | Journal club: The replication crisis: |
| October 31 | All work and no play: Using goals to explain the purpose of traits Kira McCabe, SMPY Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| November 10 | Benchmark validation of statistical mediation analysis David MacKinnon, Quantitative Psychology, Arizona State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special time: Thursday, 3:30 - 4:30 |
| November 14 | Journal club: Shadish, Clark, & Steiner (2008) |
| November 28 | Precis: Teaching psychology and quantitative methods into the 21st century Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| January 23 | Discussion topic: Faculty teaching |
| January 30 | Change we can't believe in: Misspecification in latent change score models and the consequences for parameter estimation model evaluation and predicting change David Clark, Texas A&M äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| February 6 | No forum today |
| February 13 | Modeling and testing differential item functioning in unidimensional binary item response models with a single continuous covariate: A functional data analysis approach Yang Liu, Psychological Sciences, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of California - Merced |
| February 22 | Imaging decisions: Multilevel modeling of fMRI Wil Cunningham, Dept. of Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Toronto Special time and place: Wednesday, 12:10 - 1:00 in Wilson 113 |
| February 27 | Psychology, science, and knowledge construction: Broadening perspectives from the replication crisis Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 13 | Journal club: Berry, Reese, & Larkey (1999) |
| March 20 | Evaluating testing, profile likelihood confidence interval estimation, and model comparisons for item covariate effects in linear logistic test models Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 23 | Mini-conference: "Teaching Statistics and Quant Methods into the 21st Century" |
| March 27 | Critical thinking in higher education: Meaning and measurement Nathan Kuncel, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Minnesota Dept. of Psychology Using derivatives to articulate theories and models of change Pascal Deboeck, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Utah Dept. of Psychology |
| April 3 | Exploring the ability of extensive baseline covariates to reduce selection bias in nonrandomized studies of achievement effects Mark Lipsey, Peabody Research Institute, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Qiongru Yu & Shiyuan Zhang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 10 | Titles TBA Quantitative Methods doctoral students |
| April 17 | Titles TBA Quantitative Methods doctoral students |
| April 24 | Titles TBA Quantitative Methods doctoral students |
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018 |
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| September 11 | Adventures in smoothing: Using Poisson p-splines and the overlap coefficient to assess consistency of subject-specific distributions
Andy Tomarken, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology |
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September 18 |
The use of the likelihood based method in quantifying uncertainty in structural equation models
Hao Wu, Boston College Dept. of Psychology |
| September 25 | Professional development topic: Inclusion and Cultural Competence in Quantitative Psychology Greg Fontus, Assistant Director for the Office of Inclusion Initiatives and Cultural Competence, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| October 2 | Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP) conference talks Kris Preacher, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾, Department of Psychology and Human Development Joseph Rodgers, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾, Department of Psychology and Human Development |
| October 9 | Article discussion: SEM with phantom variables (Harring et al. reading)
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| October 16 | Advances in latent growth modeling: Applications to multiphase and mixture models
Jeffrey Harring, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Maryland Dept. of Human Dev. & Quantitative Methodology |
| October 23 | Woo-yeol Lee, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 30 | Article discussion: Data mining (Grimm et al. readings) |
| November 6 | Reliable Trees: A Reliability Informed Approach to Recursive Partitioning
Kevin Grimm, Arizona State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology |
| November 13 | Kira McCabe, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| November 20 | Thanksgiving break |
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December 4 |
Mark Lachowicz, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| January 8 | The importance of a second level bootstrap for understanding data
Derek Smith, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Biostatistics |
| January 15 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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| January 22 | Article discussion: McNeish, D., Stapleton, L. M., & Silverman, R. D. (2017). On the unnecessary ubiquity of hierarchical linear modeling. Psychological Methods , 22, 114-140. |
| January 29 | Multilevel and single-level confirmatory factor analysis with data from nested settings
Laura Stapleton, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Maryland - College Park Dept. of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology |
| February 12 | New imputation methods for analyses with incomplete interaction effects
Craig Enders, UCLA Psychology Dept. |
| February 19 | Jason Rights, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| February 26 | Study design for accurate estimates of effect size: A sequential approach
Ken Kelley, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business |
| March 5 | Spring break |
| March 12 | Patrick O'Keefe, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 19 | Mason Garrison, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 26 |
Alexandria Hadd,
Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Michael Krämer, Freie Universität Berlin |
| April 2 | Brian Bernstein, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 9 | From Terman to today: A century of findings on intellectual precocity
David Lubinski, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 16 | Trends and characteristics by year for all drug and opioid-related polydrug deaths in TN, 2013 to 2016
Kayle Donner , Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Neonatal abstinence syndrome in Tennessee, 2013-2016 Yue Gao, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 23 | Understanding the effect of cause of death statements on mortality reporting
Molly Golladay, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 |
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| September 3 | Labor Day |
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September 10 |
Own experience bias in a labor market with heterogeneous rewards
Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Economics |
| September 17 | Exploring and diagnosing dynamical systems models using the R package, Dynamic Modeling in R (dynr)
Sy-Miin Chow, Human Development & Family Studies, Pennsylvania State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| September 24 | Healthcare opportunities for measurement experts: Lessons along my journey
Jason Cole, Executive Director, Global Health Economics & Outcome Research |
| October 1 | Geospatial data manipulation, modeling, and analysis: Cartesian and subject-oriented approaches in anthropology
Steve Wernke, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Anthropology |
| October 8 | Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP) conference talks Kris Preacher, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Joe Rodgers, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Sonya Sterba, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 15 | Rethinking psychological constructs
Paul De Boeck, The Ohio State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology |
| October 22 | Making a difference: How gifted individuals enhance communities world-wide
Kira McCabe, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 29 | Confidence intervals for correlation matrices
Alexandria Hadd, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| November 5 | Interview tips for graduate students
Ruth Schemmer, Assistant Dean for Career Development, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| November 12 | Approximating the asymptotic covariance matrix when estimating models with the EM algorithm
Phil Chalmers, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Georgia Department of Educational Psychology |
| November 19 | Thanksgiving break |
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November 26 |
Using families to test causal claims without experiments
Mason Garrison, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| December 3 | Advances in R-squared measures for quantifying explained variance in multilevel models
Jason Rights, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| January 7 | Professional development seminar in inclusion and cultural competence: Exploring self in society
Gregory Fontus, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Office of Inclusion & Cultural Competence |
| January 14 |
Biomedical applications for structural equation modeling
Steven Brunwasser, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Medicine |
| January 21 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
| January 28 | A dynamic generalized linear mixed effect model for intensive binary time series data from an eye tracking technique
Sun-Joo Cho, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| February 4 | Corporate data scientist – cog in the wheel or superhero?
Miriam Kraatz, Asurion, Data Science |
| February 11 | No colloquium |
| February 18 | Measurement equivalence with categorical indicators: Thresholds as a first-order measurement model
Terrence Jorgensen, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Amsterdam Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences |
| February 25 | Novel assessment strategies for improving our understanding of mental health
Ross Jacobucci, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Notre Dame Dept. of Psychology |
| March 4 | Spring break |
| March 11 | Deductive data mining
Gitta Lubke, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Notre Dame Dept. of Psychology |
| March 18 | Academic acceleration in gifted youth and fruitless concerns about psychological well-being: A 35-year longitudinal Study Brian Bernstein, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 25 |
Matthew Naveiras,
Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 1 | Planning reproducible research
Keith Muller, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Florida, Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics |
| April 8 | Propensity scores: Promises and pitfalls
Patrick O'Keefe, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 15 |
Measuring student satisfaction in the Vanderbilt Medical School
Student retention under TN Promise program
Risk of repeat overdose as determined by mental health status: An examination of TN hospital patients
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| April 22 | Increases in fentanyl and stimulant overdose deaths in Tennessee, 2016-2017: Descriptive analysis using death certificate data
Jaehyun Shin, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Estimating trustworthiness for clinical responsibilities: Balancing risks and rewards in medical education Yasi Wang, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 |
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| September 2 | Labor Day |
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September 9 |
Musings on statistical models vs. machine learning in health research
Frank Harrell, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Biostatistics |
| September 16 | Advances in latent structure models
Steven Culpepper, Dept. of Statistics, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| September 23 | What exactly happens in there? Five years as a research scientist at a large-scale testing organization
Harrison Kell, Educational Testing Service |
| September 30 | Incorporating individual differences and environmental context
Kira McCabe, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 7 | Fall faculty conference talks Hao Wu, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Joe Rodgers, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Jason Rights & Sonya Sterba, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Kris Preacher & Sonya Sterba, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development David Lubinski, Camilla Benbow, Kira McCabe, & Brian Bernstein, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 14 |
Multivariate assessment of balance in propensity score matching
Patrick O'Keefe, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| October 21 | no forum |
| October 28 |
no forum
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| November 4 | fMRI of state-dependent brain activity
Catie Chang, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Computer Science |
| November 11 | Stochastic accumulator models and what drives them
Tom Palmeri, Director of Scientific Computing Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Psychological Sciences |
| November 18 | Statistical modeling in the wild: Data science in practice
Jesse Spencer-Smith, Chief Data Scientist, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Data Science Institute |
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November 25 |
Thanksgiving break |
| December 2 | Examining the association between early experiences and later brain and behavior
Kate Humphreys, Clinical Science Program, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| January 6 |
No forum
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| January 13 |
A caution in the use of bootstrap confidence intervals for fit indices
Hao Wu, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| January 20 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
| January 27 | A blavaan status update
Ed Merkle, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Missouri |
| February 3 | No forum |
| February 10 | Estimating causal effects with observational data: The instrumental variables regression model and beyond
Albert Maydeu-Olivares, Quantitative Methodology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of South Carolina |
| February 17 | Article discussion: Controlling confounds in social science research
Brian Bernstein, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| February 24 | Consulting Open House
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| March 2 | Spring break |
| March 9 | Challenges of consulting: Experiences of real biostatisticians
Mario Davidson, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Biostatistics |
| March 16 | No forum |
| March 23 | No forum |
| March 30 | No forum |
| April 6 | Haley Yaremych, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
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April 13 (2:00 - 3:45) |
Hope Ervin, Quantitative Psychology,
Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Yadi Li , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Stephen Robinson , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
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April 20 (2:00 - 4:15) |
Chao Zhang
, Quantitative Psychology,
Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Kalley Mankowski , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Ruolin Lu , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development John Reiter , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
Fall 2020 - Spring 2021 |
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| August 24 | Virtual meet/greet and discussion |
| August 31 | Bayesian imputation and compatibility issue Han Du, Quantitative Psychology Program, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of California - Los Angeles |
| September 7 | Labor Day |
| September 14 | Modeling eminence in STEM: Methodological requirements
David Lubinski, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| September 21 | How quantitative psychology training led me to inclusive teaching
Viji Sathy, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| September 28 | Detecting unobserved heterogeneity in growth mixture models: A Monte Carlo simulation study
Katerina Marcoulides, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Minnesota |
| October 5 | Professional development colloquium: Considerations and advice for pursuing a career as a statistical consultant
RJ Wirth, Vector Psychometric Consulting Group |
| October 12 | Mplus Trees and applications to COVID-19 Sarfaraz Serang, Quantitative Psychology, Utah State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| October 19 | A methodologist’s guide to the wide, weird, and wonderful world of neuroimaging
Teague Henry, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Virginia |
| October 26 | Multiplicative treatment effects in randomized pretest-posttest experimental designs Qimin Liu, Quantitative Methods and Clinical Science, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| November 2 | Machine learning applications for the detection of psychological states in naturalistic settings Adela Timmons, Quantitative and Clinical Psychology, Florida International äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| November 9 | Multiple testing in ANOVA and regression: Issues and solutions for fostering a more reproducible science
Samantha Anderson, Quantitative Psychology, Arizona State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| November 16 | A comparison of three frameworks for model fit evaluation in Item Response Theory
Scott Monroe, Educational Measurement & Psychometrics, Univ. of Massachusetts - Amherst |
| November 23 | Thanksgiving break |
| November 30 | Counting Joe Rodgers, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| January 25 | Equity in college admissions: Is it possible?
Michael Walker, Educational Testing Service (ETS) |
| February 1 | Professional development seminar: What is it like to work as a psychometrician at RAND Corporation?
Wenjing Huang, RAND Corporation |
| February 8 - March 8 | Internal QM program activity Sonya Sterba, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 15 | No meeting |
| March 22 | Brian Bernstein, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| March 29 | Haley Yaremych, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 5 | Exploring latent brain networks via simultaneous component analysis
Nathaniel Helwig, U. of Minnesota Dept. of Psychology & School of Statistics Special time: 2:00p - 3:15p |
| April 12 | Matthew Naveiras, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 19 | Confirmatory factor analysis of two popular psychological assessment scales among substance abuse patients
Siyun Feng, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBվ’s Graduate School Annual Report McKenna Cortez, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development |
| April 26 | Wrap-around services for pregnant woman with opioid use disorder
Yuan Fang, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development A wrinkle in time: Exploring time aggregation in quasi-experimental models Dalton Abel, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Factor analysis on two important competency-based assessment events at Vanderbilt Medical School Yibin Ni, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development Special time: 2:00p - 3:50p |
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 |
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September 6 |
Labor Day |
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September 13 |
Integrating text into psychological and education research: Latent variable modeling and applications
Kenneth Tyler Wilcox, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Notre Dame |
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September 20 |
More than "just a model"? Psychometric modeling and scale scores
Alex P. Christensen, Cognitive Neuroscience/Neuroaesthetics, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Pennsylvania |
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September 27 |
Deep learning and psychometrics: A fruitful new synthesis
Christian Urban, Quantitative Psychology, UNC Chapel Hill |
| October 4 | On networks and online Russian trolls: How can the total entropy fit index be applied to optimize the number of embedded dimensions used in dynamic exploratory graph analysis, and why does it matter
Hudson Golino, Quantitative Methods & Data Sciance, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Virginia Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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October 11 |
Kristopher Preacher, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Sonya Sterba, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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October 18 |
How many have died? Mortality reporting in the age of COVID-19
Molly Golladay, QM M.Ed. Alumni Speaker, Tennessee Dept. of Health |
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October 25 |
Predicting earnings of recent college graduates: A machine learning approach
Will Doyle, LPO & Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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November 1 |
Estimating bias and sensitivity of front-door models
Felix Thoemmes, Human Development, Cornell äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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November 8 |
Struggles with latent variable model evaluation and selection: When does a difference make a difference?
Daniel Oberski, Methodology & Statistics, Utrecht äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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November 15 |
Adventures in smoothing: P-splines
Andrew Tomarken, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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November 22 |
Thanksgiving break |
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November 29 |
Mapping item-response interactions: A latent space approach to item response data with interaction maps
Minjeong Jeon, Quantitative Methods, UCLA Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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December 6 |
Does violence against journalists deter detailed reporting? Evidence from Mexico Cassy Dorff, Political Science & Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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January 17 |
Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
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January 24 |
Process data analysis in computer-based assessment
Jingchen Liu, Department of Statistics, Columbia äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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January 31 |
The future of psychometric research: From standardized testing in education to AI-augmented learning
Hua-Hua Chang, Department of Statistics, Purdue äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| February 7 | Disaggregating person- and situation-specific heterogeneity in psychiatric phenotyping via discrete latent state-trait modeling
Qimin Liu, Quantitative Methods & Clinical Science, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| February 14 | Stan: A Frequentist gives a brief tutorial on the Bayesian software
Patrick O'Keefe, Annual QM Alumni Speaker, Oregon Health & Science äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| February 21 | What's quant got to do with It? A journey in discovering quantitative possibilities for disrupting gendered racism in mathematics
Nicole M. Joseph, Mathematics & Science Education, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| February 28 | Using multilevel models to uncover spatiotemporal dynamics of neural activity (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MLM)
Michael Halquist, Psychology & Neuroscience, UNC Chapel Hill Joint virtual colloquium together with the Quantitative Methods programs at UVA, USC, Ohio State, UNC-CH, and U. Maryland Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
| March 7 | Spring break |
| March 14 | Reflections on the fading standardized testing requirement in college admissions
Li Cai, Advanced Quantitative Methodology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of California - Los Angeles |
| March 21 | The econometric approach to causality
James Heckman, Economics, Public Policy, and School of Law, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Chicago Joint virtual colloquium together with the Quantitative Methods programs at UVA, USC, Ohio State, UNC-CH, and U. Maryland Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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March 28 |
Haley Yaremych, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 4 |
Matthew Naveiras, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 11 |
Critiquing from within: The role and importance of meta-scientific research in psychology
Kate Slaney, Quantitative Psychology, Simon Fraser äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Joint virtual colloquium together with the Quantitative Methods programs at UVA, USC, Ohio State, UNC-CH, and U. Maryland Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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April 18 |
Hannah Culbertson, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Manuel Horta, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Astrid (Hanxuan) Yu, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
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April 25 |
Sarah Obeidalla, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Morgan Reinhart, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 |
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September 5 |
Labor Day |
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September 12 |
Free form responses in surveys: An opportunity for enriched data analysis
Charreau Bell, Data Science Institute (DSI), Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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September 19 |
Using large language models to develop readability formulas
Scott Crossley, Special Education & Data Science Institute (DSI), Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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September 26 |
Scientific communication, quantitative methods, and evidence-based policy
Jon Wai, Education Reformhristian Urban, Quantitative Psychology, UNC Chapel Hill |
| October 3 | Psycholinguistics as a problem space for quantitative psychologists
Van Liceralde, Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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October 10 |
Using a quantitative mindset to advance DEI in higher ed
Viji Sathy & Abigail Panter, Psychology & Neuroscience, UNC Chapel Hill Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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October 17 |
An introduction to applied reinforcement learning with AWS DeepRacer
Stephen Robinson, QM M.Ed. Alumni Speaker, 1st Edge Software Engineering |
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October 24 |
More missing, better fit?! How can we fix it?
Cathy Zhang, Quantitative Psychology, York äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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October 31 |
The influences of homophily, institutional power, and framing in understanding collective action networks
Rong Wang, Human & Organizational Development, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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November 7 |
Moving toward evidence based practice in graduate admissions
Nathan Kuncel, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Minnesota Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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November 14 |
Matthew Naveiras, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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November 21 |
Thanksgiving break |
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November 28 |
Professional development: Quantitative psychology teaching panel
Amanda Montoya, UCLA; Jessica Logan, Vanderbilt; Chris Strauss, UNC Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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December 5 |
Haley Yaremych, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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January 9 |
Reporting of subscore on educational tests: A review of the status quo Sandip Sinharay, Distinguished Presidential Appointee, Educational Testing Service (ETS) |
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January 16 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
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January 23 |
"Wait, I'm confused": Revisiting methodological recommendations based on sensitivity and specificity Alex Christensen, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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January 30 |
Multilevel models of intersectional inequalities
Clare Evans, Dept. of Sociology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Oregon Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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February 6 |
Consulting Open House Justine Hoch, Developmental Science, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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February 13 |
Canceled |
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February 20 |
No forum |
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February 27 |
Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition: Assessing robustness toward omitted variable bias
Soojin Park, Quantitative Methods, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of California - Riverside Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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March 6 |
Gabriella Noreen, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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March 13 |
Spring break |
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March 20 |
Annie Belloeil, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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March 27 |
Amy Liang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 3 |
Jeongwon Choi, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 10 |
Isaac Baca, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Junhao Cai, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Hoi Kan, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Yingxian Liu, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 17 |
Joy Polk, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Xiaodi Ruan, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Yunyi Sun, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Tiffany Tran, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 24 |
Christine Jensen, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Anqi Wang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Shuti Wang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Runqi Yuan, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 |
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September 4 |
Labor Day |
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September 11 |
Academic job searches, applications, and interviews in quantitative methods
Sonya Sterba, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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September 18 |
Taking the scenic route: Challenges and solutions for nonlinear regression in psychology research
Haley Yaremych, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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September 25 |
Computational social science topics in the NDS Lab: An introduction
Tyler Derr, Data Science & Computer Science, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| October 2 | Factor scores in clustered data Chris Strauss, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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October 9 |
Generalizability and heterogeneity: Designing your study when treatment effects vary Elizabeth Tipton, Statistics and Data Science, Statistics for Evidence-Based Policy and Practice (STEPP) Center, Northwestern äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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October 16 |
Children’s causal inferences (mostly) reflect associative learning under information processing demands
Deon Benton, Cognitive Neuroscience, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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October 23 |
Tales from the borderlands of academia: Quantitative careers in the education research industry
Mark Lachowicz, Quantitative Researcher, American Institutes for Research (AIR) Student meeting afterward (3:30 - 4:00) |
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October 30 |
Two-method measurement planned missing data designs
Jessica Logan, Special Education, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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November 6 |
Consequences of mistaking the measurement model in SEM: Alternatives to common factors and a method for model selection Mijke Rhemtulla, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of California - Davis Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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November 13 |
Thanksgiving potluck
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November 20 |
Thanksgiving break |
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November 27 |
Incorporating intersectionality using latent class analysis within health contexts Melanie Wall, Dept. of Biostatistics, Director of Mental Health Data Science, Columbia äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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December 4 |
Canceled |
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January 8 |
DIF via robust scaling Peter Halpin, Learning Sciences & Quantitative Psychology, UNC Chapel Hill |
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January 15 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
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January 22 |
Meta-analysis and bringing research to practice: A justice reform case study of the Standardized Program Evaluation Protocol (SPEPâ„¢) Gabrielle Chapman, Peabody Research Institute, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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January 29 |
Reflections on the within-between dispute in cross-lagged panel research
Ellen Hamaker, Professor of Longitudinal Data Analysis, Utrecht äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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February 5 |
Bayesian compositional data analysis and variable selection Xin (Cynthia) Tong, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Virginia |
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February 12 |
Improving eating disorder research, assessment, and treatment with ecological momentary assessment, sensor technology, and network theory Madison Hooper, Clinical Science, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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February 19 |
No forum |
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February 26 |
Intra- and inter-individual variability in psychological processes in dyadic interactions
Emilio Ferrer, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of California - Davis Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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March 4 |
Jeongwon Choi, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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March 11 |
Spring break |
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March 18 |
Amy Liang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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March 25 |
Annie Belloeil, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 1 |
Gabriella Noreen, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 8 |
Russell (Haoze) Pan, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
David (Xiaolong) Liu, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Smiley (Myrnaliza) Tan, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 15 |
Emma Walker, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Jordan Henderson, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Yuhan Shi, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 22 |
Garrett Maher, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Alexis Lewis, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Jingyan Ruan, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Mike (Yuqiao) Wang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 |
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September 2 |
Labor Day |
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September 9 |
Searching for what's not in the data: The challenges of causal inference and the usefulness of behavior genetics
Brian Boutwell, Quantitative Genetics & Population Health Science, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Mississippi |
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September 16 |
Revised network loadings
Alex Christensen, Quantitative Methods & Data Science, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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September 23 |
Statistical analyses with indices of linguistic features
Wesley Morris, Cognitive Science & Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
| September 30 | Explanatory item response models with random forests and interpretable machine learning
Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Another bias-adjusted estimate of RMSEA Hao Wu, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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October 7 |
Integer programming in psychology: A review and directions for future research
Michael Brusco, Business Analytics, Florida State äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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October 14 |
Automated deidentification of student writing
Langdon Holmes, Computational Linguistics, Quantitative Methods, & Cognition in Context, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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October 21 |
Confirmatory mixture models for investigating contextual correlates of response behavior in ecological momentary assessments
Esther Ulitzsch, Educational Measurement, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of Oslo |
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October 28 |
AI-augmented analytics and research Jesse Spencer Smith, Director & Chief Data Scientist, Data Science Institute & Dept. of Computer Science, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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November 4 |
Ask what you mean and mean what you ask: Strategic reparameterization of latent growth curve models
Yi Feng, Quantitative Psychology, UCLA Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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November 11 |
Taking the left-hand path: Ten years as an applied psychologist (Invited QM Program Alumni Colloquium) Harrison Kell, Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) |
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November 18 |
Thanksgiving potluck |
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November 25 |
Thanksgiving break |
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December 2 |
Relations of positive and negative emotion reactivity to depressive symptoms: A multimethod approach
George Abitante, Clinical Science & Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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January 6 |
Distinguishing cause from effect in psychological research
Dexin Shi, Quantitative Psychology, äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ of South Carolina |
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January 13 |
The utility of advanced statistical methods in the CritQuant paradigm of quantitative research
Andres Pinedo, Human & Organizational Development, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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January 20 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
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January 27 |
Pros and cons of the simple sum score on tests and questionnaires Klaas Sijtsma, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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February 3 |
Violations of item interchangeability complicate construct validation efforts
Ashley Watts, Clinical Science, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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February 10 |
Mapping binary data: distributions matter—They really matter
Andy Tomarken, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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February 17 |
Dispatches from the borderlands of academia: Quantitative careers in industry Invited QM Program Alumni Colloquium Mark Lachowicz, American Institutes for Research (AIR) |
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February 24 |
Evaluating effects of interventions on disparity in health and healthcare decisions
John Jackson, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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March 3 |
Annie Belloeil, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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March 10 |
Spring break |
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March 17 |
Jeongwon Choi, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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March 24 |
Gabriella Noreen, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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March 31 |
Amy Liang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 7 |
Alexandros (Alex) Nikolaidis-Konstas, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Yujia He, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 14 |
Sayaka (Saya) Takeuchi, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Weichen Sun, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Meredith Powers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ |
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April 21 |
Sophia Mueller, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾
Josh (Kaicheng) Zhang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt |
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