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Quantitative Methods Colloquium

QM Colloquium Series Schedule, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
Department of Psychology & Human Development

Location/Time: Alternate Mondays, 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Hobbs 106
Organizer: Joe Rodgers
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, University 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, University 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 University
Special location and time: Wyatt 223, Wednesday, 2:30 - 4:00.
[Jointly sponsored with Peabody Research Institute]
   

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5/8/2013 at 2:30 pm
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