Quantitative Forum

Faculty coordinator: Dr. Robert MacCallum
Student coordinator: Sonya Sterba

Meetings are held Monday at 12:00 p.m. in Davie 347 unless otherwise noted.

Links to past forum schedules:

Scheduled Meetings for Spring 2007 :

  • 01/29/07
    Title: Semi-Annual Pizza & Scheduling Party
    Location/Time: 12:10-1:10pm /Davie Rm. 347
  • 02/05/07
    Title: No Meeting this week.   
  • 02/12/07
    Title: A History of the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Lab from
    an Insider's Perspective
    Presenter: Lyle V. Jones, Ph.D.
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • 02/19/07
    Title: Professional Development Seminar: The Hiring Process in Academia
    Presenter: Group discussion with background reading.
  • 02/26/07
    Title: Methods for Integrating Moderation and Mediation: A General Analytical Framework Using Moderated Path Analysis
    Presenter: Jeffrey R. Edwards, Ph.D.
                                                           Affiliations: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC
 
  • 03/05/07
    Title: The Epistemology of Mathematical Modeling: A (Silent) Methodological Revolution or: Putting the Modeling Heart before the Methodological Course

    Presenter: Joe Rodgers, Ph.D.                                                                    Affiliations: Department of Quantitative Psychology, University of Oklahoma
  • 03/12/07
    Spring break
  • 03/19/07
    Title: An Introductory Look at Latent Curve Modeling as Applied to Treatment Evaluation Research
    Presenter: Diane Losardo
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC                                 Title: What North Carolina Youth Think about Tobacco Advertising
    and the Tobacco Industry

    Presenter: Kelly Kandra
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • 03/26/07
    Title: Work in Progress on Mixed Models:
    Exact Fit Testing and RMSEA Statistics for Mixed Models
    and Sample Weighted Multiple Group IRT Models with Structural Non-Invariance
    Presenter: Daniel Serrano
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • 04/02/07
    Title: Measurement Invariance in Models of Growth
    Presenter: R.J. Wirth
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • 04/09/07
    Title: A Brief Overview of Current Methods of Estimating Latent Variable
    Interactions in Structural Equation Models
    Presenter: Wenjing Huang
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC

  • 04/16/07
    Title: Case Influence in Structural Equation Modeling
    Presenter: Jolynn Pek
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • Title: Parameter Influence in Structural Equation Modeling
    Presenter: Taehun Lee

    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • 04/23/07
    Title: Sensitivity to Unobserved Confounders: An Illustration
    Presenter: Michael Foster, Ph.D.
    Affiliation: Department of Public Health and Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, UNC



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