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 Fall 2006:

  • 08/28/06
    Title: Organizational Meeting
  • 09/12/06
    Title: Random Effects, Fixed Effects, and Hybrid Models for Longitudinal Data
    Presenter: Dr. Kenneth Bollen

    Affiliation: Department of Sociology, UNC

    Location: University Square East, Room 405, noon.
  • 09/18/06
    Title: Creating a Developmentally Sensitive Alcohol Involvement
    Index Using Moderated Nonlinear Factor Analysis

    Presenters: 1 Dr. Daniel Bauer, 1 Li Cai, and 2 Dr. Andrea Hussong            Affiliations: Departments of 1 Quantitative and 2 Clinical Psychology, UNC   
  • 09/25/06
    Title: Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials
    Presenter: Dr. Robert Hamer
    Affiliation: Departments of Biostatistics and Psychiatry, UNC
  • 10/2/06
    Title: Modeling Longitudinal Turnover in Substance Abuse Treatment Groups with Rolling Admissions: A Latent Class Pattern Mixture Approach
    Presenter: Dr. Antonio Morgan-Lopez
    Affiliation: Research Triangle Institute, RTP
  • 10/9/06
    Title: Sample Size and the Linear Mixed Model
    Presenter: Daniel Serrano
    Title: Full-information Item Factor Analysis by Markov chain Monte Carlo Stochastic Approximation
    Presenter: Li Cai
                                                                               Affiliations: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
 
  • 10/16/06
    Title: Isopower in Tests of Covariance Structure Models.
    Presenter: Dr. Robert MacCallum                                                          
    Title: Comparing the Estimates of Mixed Models for Binary and Ordinal Data
    Presenter: Dr. Daniel Bauer                                                                  Affiliations: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC                          
  • 10/23/06
    Title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Latent Variable Models with Interactions
    Presenter: Dr. Stephen du Toit
    Affiliations: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC; Scientific Software International
  • 10/30/06
    Title: Statistical and Design Issues in the COMBINE Study
    of Treatment of Alcohol Dependence
    Presenter: Dr. James Hosking                                                         Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, UNC
  • 11/6/06
    Title: A Discussion of the History and Effects of Affirmative Action
    Co-Presenters: Rachel Upton and Nisha Gottfredson
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • 11/13/06
    Title: Childhood aggression and correlates of maladjustment: An introduction to meta-analysis.
    Presenter: Brian Stucky
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • 11/20/06
    Title: Thanksgiving Lunch
  • 11/27/06
    Title: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Selection Bias
    Presenter: Sonya Sterba
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC
  • 12/4/06
    Title: Getting Graphic: Using R to Create Statistical Plots.
    Presenter: Michelle Langer
    Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Psychology, UNC



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