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Quantitative Methods Colloquium

QM Colloquium Series Schedule, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Department of Psychology & Human Development

Location/Time: Mondays, 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Hobbs 105
Organizer: Sonya Sterba
September 11 Adventures in smoothing: Using Poisson p-splines and the overlap coefficient to assess consistency of subject-specific distributions
Andy Tomarken, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology
September 18
 		The use of the likelihood based method in quantifying uncertainty in structural equation models
Hao Wu, Boston College Dept. of Psychology
September 25 Professional development topic: Inclusion and Cultural Competence in Quantitative Psychology
Greg Fontus, Assistant Director for the Office of Inclusion Initiatives and Cultural Competence, Vanderbilt University
October 2 Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP) conference talks
Kris Preacher, Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development
Joseph Rodgers, Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development
October 9 Article discussion: SEM with phantom variables (Harring et al. reading)
October 16 Advances in latent growth modeling: Applications to multiphase and mixture models
Jeffrey Harring, University of Maryland Dept. of Human Dev. & Quantitative Methodology
October 23 Woo-yeol Lee, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
October 30 Article discussion: Data mining (Grimm et al. readings)
November 6 Reliable Trees: A Reliability Informed Approach to Recursive Partitioning
Kevin Grimm, Arizona State University Dept. of Psychology
November 13 Kira McCabe, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
November 20 Thanksgiving break
December 4
 		Mark Lachowicz, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
January 8 The importance of a second level bootstrap for understanding data
Derek Smith, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biostatistics
January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 22 Article discussion: McNeish, D., Stapleton, L. M., & Silverman, R. D. (2017). On the unnecessary ubiquity of hierarchical linear modeling. Psychological Methods , 22, 114-140.
January 29 Multilevel and single-level confirmatory factor analysis with data from nested settings
Laura Stapleton, University of Maryland - College Park Dept. of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
February 12 New imputation methods for analyses with incomplete interaction effects
Craig Enders, UCLA Psychology Dept.
February 19 Jason Rights, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
February 26 Study design for accurate estimates of effect size: A sequential approach
Ken Kelley, University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business
March 5 Spring break
March 12 Patrick O'Keefe, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
March 19 Mason Garrison, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
March 26 Alexandria Hadd, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Michael Krämer, Freie Universität Berlin
April 2 Brian Bernstein, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
April 9 From Terman to today: A century of findings on intellectual precocity
David Lubinski, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
April 16 Trends and characteristics by year for all drug and opioid-related polydrug deaths in TN, 2013 to 2016
Kayle Donner , Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Neonatal abstinence syndrome in Tennessee, 2013-2016
Yue Gao, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
April 23 Understanding the effect of cause of death statements on mortality reporting
Molly Golladay, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development

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