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Quantitative Methods Colloquium

QM Colloquium Series Schedule, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
Department of Psychology & Human Development

Location/Time: Mondays, 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Hobbs 105
Organizer: Joe Rodgers
September 12 Organizational meeting; we will introduce faculty and graduate students, and discuss scheduling
September 19
 		Reducing adolescent risky behaviors in a high-risk context: The effects of unconditional cash transfers in South Africa
Carolyn Heinrich, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations
September 26 Discussion topic: Letters from the editor in the publication process (rejection letters, acceptance letters, rejection letters that look like acceptance letters, and acceptance letters that look like rejection letters)
October 3 Simpler isn't better, it's just simpler: OLS regression weights make better predictions than simple alternative weights in realistic simulations
Michael Nelson, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
October 10 How quant methods informs policymaking in the airline industry
Carolyn Ezzell, Vice President (retired) of Delta Airlines, Atlanta and London
October 17 SMEP presentations
  • Problems with rationales for parceling without considering parcel-allocation variability (SMEP Cattell Award Address)
    Sonya Sterba, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
  • When lightning strikes twice: Profoundly gifted, profoundly accomplished
    David Lubinski, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
October 24 Journal club: The replication crisis: Fiske and Gelman
October 31 All work and no play: Using goals to explain the purpose of traits
Kira McCabe, SMPY Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
November 10 Benchmark validation of statistical mediation analysis
David MacKinnon, Quantitative Psychology, Arizona State University
 Special time: Thursday, 3:30 - 4:30
November 14 Journal club: Shadish, Clark, & Steiner (2008)
November 28 Precis: Teaching psychology and quantitative methods into the 21st century
Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
January 23 Discussion topic: Faculty teaching
January 30 Change we can't believe in: Misspecification in latent change score models and the consequences for parameter estimation model evaluation and predicting change
David Clark, Texas A&M University
February 6 No forum today
February 13 Modeling and testing differential item functioning in unidimensional binary item response models with a single continuous covariate: A functional data analysis approach
Yang Liu, Psychological Sciences, University of California - Merced
February 22 Imaging decisions: Multilevel modeling of fMRI
Wil Cunningham, Dept. of Psychology, University of Toronto
 Special time and place: Wednesday, 12:10 - 1:00 in Wilson 113
February 27 Psychology, science, and knowledge construction: Broadening perspectives from the replication crisis
Joe Rodgers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
March 13 Journal club: Berry, Reese, & Larkey (1999)
March 20 Evaluating testing, profile likelihood confidence interval estimation, and model comparisons for item covariate effects in linear logistic test models
Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
March 23 Mini-conference: "Teaching Statistics and Quant Methods into the 21st Century"
March 27 Critical thinking in higher education: Meaning and measurement
Nathan Kuncel, University of Minnesota Dept. of Psychology
Using derivatives to articulate theories and models of change
Pascal Deboeck, University of Utah Dept. of Psychology
April 3 Exploring the ability of extensive baseline covariates to reduce selection bias in nonrandomized studies of achievement effects
Mark Lipsey, Peabody Research Institute, Vanderbilt University
Qiongru Yu & Shiyuan Zhang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
April 10 Titles TBA
Quantitative Methods doctoral students
April 17 Titles TBA
Quantitative Methods doctoral students
April 24 Titles TBA
Quantitative Methods doctoral students

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