Psychological Sciences
PRIMARY FACULTY
AFFILIATED FACULTY
James Steiger

James Steiger

Professor

Quantitative Methods and Evaluation

Office: 215A Hobbs
Phone: 615-322-7060
Fax: 615-343-9494
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Curriculum Vitae



Degrees

  • Ph.D. (Purdue University, 1976)

Research Area

  • Quantitative Methods

Current Positions

  • Professor of Psychology, Peabody College.

Professional Honors

  • Raymond B. Cattell Award for multivariate Experimental Research; Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology
  • Killam Research Prize for contributions to multivariate statistical methods; University of British Columbia

Representative Publications

  • Steiger, J.H. (2004). Beyond the F test: Effect size confidence intervals and tests of close fit in the analysis of variance and contrast analysis. Psychological Methods, 9, 164-182.
  • Steiger, J. H. (2004). Paul Meehl and the evolution of statistical methods in psychology. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 11, 69-72.
  • Steiger, J.H. (2004). Comparing correlations. In A. Maydeu-Olivares (Ed.) Psychometrics. A festschrift to Roderick P. McDonald. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, in press.
  • Steiger, J.H. (2002). When constraints interact: A caution about reference variables, identification constraints, and scale dependencies in structural equation modeling. Psychological Methods, 7, 210-227.

Biography

Professor Steiger's research interests are (1) multivariate correlational methods, especially factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and methods for comparing and evaluating correlations, (2) power analysis and precision analysis, (3) the use of confidence intervals and tests of close fit to evaluate the fit of statistical models, (4) development of models for the distribution of multivariate statistical tests, and (5) development of statistical software.
 
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