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Quantitative Methods Colloquium

QM Colloquium Series Schedule, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
Department of Psychology & Human Development

Location/Time: Mondays, 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Hobbs 105
Organizer: Sonya Sterba
September 2 Labor Day
September 9
 		Musings on statistical models vs. machine learning in health research
Frank Harrell, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biostatistics
September 16 Advances in latent structure models
Steven Culpepper, Dept. of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
September 23 What exactly happens in there? Five years as a research scientist at a large-scale testing organization
Harrison Kell, Educational Testing Service
September 30 Incorporating individual differences and environmental context
Kira McCabe, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
October 7 Fall faculty conference talks
Hao Wu, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Joe Rodgers, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
 Jason Rights & Sonya Sterba, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Kris Preacher & Sonya Sterba, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
David Lubinski, Camilla Benbow, Kira McCabe, & Brian Bernstein, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
October 14 Multivariate assessment of balance in propensity score matching
Patrick O'Keefe, Vanderbilt Univ. Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
October 21 no forum
October 28 no forum
November 4 fMRI of state-dependent brain activity
Catie Chang, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Computer Science
November 11 Stochastic accumulator models and what drives them
Tom Palmeri, Director of Scientific Computing Vanderbilt University Psychological Sciences
November 18 Statistical modeling in the wild: Data science in practice
Jesse Spencer-Smith, Chief Data Scientist, Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute
November 25
 		Thanksgiving break
December 2 Examining the association between early experiences and later brain and behavior
Kate Humphreys, Clinical Science Program, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
January 6 No forum
January 13 A caution in the use of bootstrap confidence intervals for fit indices
Hao Wu, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
January 20 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 27 A blavaan status update
Ed Merkle, Quantitative Psychology, University of Missouri
February 3 No forum
February 10 Estimating causal effects with observational data: The instrumental variables regression model and beyond
Albert Maydeu-Olivares, Quantitative Methodology, University of South Carolina
February 17 Article discussion: Controlling confounds in social science research
Brian Bernstein, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
February 24 Consulting Open House
March 2 Spring break
March 9 Challenges of consulting: Experiences of real biostatisticians
Mario Davidson, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biostatistics
March 16 No forum
March 23 No forum
March 30 No forum
April 6 Haley Yaremych, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
April 13
 (2:00 - 3:45) 		Hope Ervin, Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Yadi Li , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Stephen Robinson , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
April 20
 (2:00 - 4:15)
Chao Zhang , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Kalley Mankowski , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Ruolin Lu , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
John Reiter , Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt University Dept. of Psychology & Human Development

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