Contact Information
Email
Website
(615) 343-0570
221 Hobbs
Research Area
Education
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Quantitative Psychology, 2010)
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Child Clinical Psychology, 2005)
Curriculum Vitae
Current Courses
Latent Growth Curve Modeling (Graduate; PSY-GS 319-02, Fall 2010, Spring 2012)
Applied Latent Class and Mixture Modeling (Graduate; PSY-GS 319-02, Fall 2011, 2012)
Correlation and Regression (Undergraduate; PSY 2102-02, Spring 2011, 2012; Fall 2012)
Sonya K. Sterba
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research topics include latent variable models for cross-sectional and longitudinal data, mixture models, and multilevel models, with a focus on advancing developmental psychopathology research.
Representative Publications
- Sterba, S.K., Baldasaro, R.E. & Bauer, D.J. (In press). Factors affecting the adequacy and preferability of semiparametric groups-based approximations of continuous growth trajectories. Multivariate Behavioral Research.
- Sterba, S.K. & Pek, J. (In press). Individual influence on model selection. Psychological Methods.
- Bauer, D.J. & Sterba, S.K. (2011). Fitting multilevel models with ordinal outcomes: Performance of alternative specifications and methods of estimation. Psychological Methods, 16, 373-390.
- Sterba, S.K. (2011). Implications of parcel-allocation variability for comparing fit of item-solutions and parcel-solutions. Structural Equation Modeling, 18, 554-577.
- Panter, A.T. & Sterba, S.K. (2011). Handbook of Ethics in Quantitative Methodology. Multivariate Applications Series. Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
- Sterba, S.K. & Bauer, D.J. (2010). Statistically evaluating person-oriented principles revisited: Reply to Molenaar (2010), von Eye (2010), Ialongo (2010) and Mun, Bates and Vaschillo (2010). Development & Psychopathology, 22, 287-294.
- Sterba, S.K. & Bauer, D.J. (2010). Matching method with theory in person-oriented developmental psychopathology research. Development & Psychopathology, 22, 239-254.
- Sterba, S.K. & MacCallum, R.C. (2010). Variability in parameter estimates and model fit across random allocations of items to parcels. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 45, 322-358.
- Sterba, S.K. Copeland, W., Egger, H., Costello, J., Erkanli, A. & Angold, A. (2010). Longitudinal dimensionality of adolescent psychopathology: Testing the differentiation hypothesis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51, 871-884.
- Sterba, S.K. (2009). Alternative model-based and design-based frameworks for inference from samples to populations: From polarization to integration. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44, 711-740.
- Bauer, D.J., Sterba, S.K., & Hallfors, D. (2008). Evaluating group-based interventions when control participants are ungrouped. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 43, 210-246.
- Sterba, S.K., Egger, H.L., & Angold, A. (2007). Diagnostic specificity and non-specificity in the dimensions of preschool psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48, 1005-1013.
- Sterba, S.K., Prinstein, M.J., & Cox, M.J. (2007). Trajectories of internalizing problems across childhood: Heterogeneity, external validity, and gender differences. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 345-366.
- Sterba, S.K. (2006). Misconduct in the analysis and reporting of data: Bridging methodological and ethical agendas for change. Ethics & Behavior, 16, 305-318.