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Quantitative Methods Colloquium

QM Colloquium Series Schedule, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Department of Psychology & Human Development

Time: Mondays, 2:00pm - 3:30pm (unless otherwise noted)
Organizer: Sonya Sterba
September 6
 		Labor Day
September 13
 		Integrating text into psychological and education research: Latent variable modeling and applications
Kenneth Tyler Wilcox, Quantitative Psychology, University of Notre Dame
September 20
 		More than "just a model"? Psychometric modeling and scale scores
Alex P. Christensen, Cognitive Neuroscience/Neuroaesthetics, University of Pennsylvania
September 27
 		Deep learning and psychometrics: A fruitful new synthesis
Christian Urban, Quantitative Psychology, UNC Chapel Hill
October 4 On networks and online Russian trolls: How can the total entropy fit index be applied to optimize the number of embedded dimensions used in dynamic exploratory graph analysis, and why does it matter
Hudson Golino, Quantitative Methods & Data Sciance, University of Virginia
Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
October 11
 		Kristopher Preacher, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
Sonya Sterba, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
October 18
 		How many have died? Mortality reporting in the age of COVID-19
Molly Golladay, QM M.Ed. Alumni Speaker, Tennessee Dept. of Health
October 25
 		Predicting earnings of recent college graduates: A machine learning approach
Will Doyle, LPO & Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt University
November 1
 		Estimating bias and sensitivity of front-door models
Felix Thoemmes, Human Development, Cornell University
Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
November 8
 		Struggles with latent variable model evaluation and selection: When does a difference make a difference?
Daniel Oberski, Methodology & Statistics, Utrecht University
November 15
 		Adventures in smoothing: P-splines
Andrew Tomarken, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
November 22
 		Thanksgiving break
November 29
 		Mapping item-response interactions: A latent space approach to item response data with interaction maps
Minjeong Jeon, Quantitative Methods, UCLA
Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
December 6
 		Does violence against journalists deter detailed reporting? Evidence from Mexico
Cassy Dorff, Political Science & Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt University
January 17
 		Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 24
 		Process data analysis in computer-based assessment
Jingchen Liu, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
January 31
 		The future of psychometric research: From standardized testing in education to AI-augmented learning
Hua-Hua Chang, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
February 7 Disaggregating person- and situation-specific heterogeneity in psychiatric phenotyping via discrete latent state-trait modeling
Qimin Liu, Quantitative Methods & Clinical Science, Vanderbilt University
February 14 Stan: A Frequentist gives a brief tutorial on the Bayesian software
Patrick O'Keefe, Annual QM Alumni Speaker, Oregon Health & Science University
February 21 What's quant got to do with It? A journey in discovering quantitative possibilities for disrupting gendered racism in mathematics
Nicole M. Joseph, Mathematics & Science Education, Vanderbilt University
February 28 Using multilevel models to uncover spatiotemporal dynamics of neural activity (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MLM)
Michael Halquist, Psychology & Neuroscience, UNC Chapel Hill
Joint virtual colloquium together with the Quantitative Methods programs at UVA, USC, Ohio State, UNC-CH, and U. Maryland
 Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
March 7 Spring break
March 14 Reflections on the fading standardized testing requirement in college admissions
Li Cai, Advanced Quantitative Methodology, University of California - Los Angeles
March 21 The econometric approach to causality
James Heckman, Economics, Public Policy, and School of Law, University of Chicago
Joint virtual colloquium together with the Quantitative Methods programs at UVA, USC, Ohio State, UNC-CH, and U. Maryland
 Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
March 28
 		Haley Yaremych, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
April 4
 		Matthew Naveiras, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
April 11
 		Critiquing from within: The role and importance of meta-scientific research in psychology
Kate Slaney, Quantitative Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Joint virtual colloquium together with the Quantitative Methods programs at UVA, USC, Ohio State, UNC-CH, and U. Maryland
 Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
April 18
 		Hannah Culbertson, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
Manuel Horta, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
Astrid (Hanxuan) Yu, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
 Special time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
April 25
 		Sarah Obeidalla, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
Morgan Reinhart, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University

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