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2011 Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference

Handouts

Handouts from conference sessions will be posted here as they are made available by presenters.


Preconference Workshop – Tuesday, May 24th

Bengt Muthén, Linda K. Muthén & Tihomir Asparouhov
Bayesian Modeling Using MPLUS
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Day 1 – Wednesday, May 25th

Keynote Address 1

Bengt Muthén
Modern Latent Variable Modeling Methods
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Concurrent Session 1

Tihomir Asparouhov & Bengt Muthén
New Modeling Methods for Multilevel Data
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Christopher Rhoads
The Implications of Contamination for Experimental Design in Education
[Presentation Slides, PDF] [Paper, DOI Link]

Emil Coman
Identifying Peer-Network Clusters in a Community Sample with Limited Relational Data: Using Mixture Multilevel CFA to Recover Potential Groups of Peer Influence on Attitudes Toward Female Condoms
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Kristina M. Jackson & Kenneth J. Sher
A Systematic Comparison of Trajectory Approaches: Comparing Longitudinal Phenotypes Based on Index of Alcohol Involvement and Number and Timing of Assessments
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Jinbo Bi, Yu Wu, Howard Tennen, Stephen Armeli & Arun Abraham
Identification of College Drinking Patterns with Associated Risk Factors via Statistical Feature Selection
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Concurrent Session 2

Jay Magidson
Rethinking Regression, Prediction and Variable Selection in the Presence of High Dimensional Data: Correlated Component Regression
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Ji Hoon Ryoo & Greg Welch
Fitting the Generalized Fractional Polynomial Model Incorporated with the Generalized Additive Model into Non-Normal Longitudinal Data
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Ann A. O’Connell, Sandra J. Reed, Sui Huang & DeLeon L. Gray
Assessing Model Fit for Ordinal Response Regression Models
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Concurrent Session 3

Nicholas Myers, Soyeon Ahn & Ying Jin
Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling or Confirmatory Factor Analysis for (Im)Perfect Validity Studies
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Thomas Ledermann, Siegfried Macho & David A. Kenny
Assessing Mediation in Dyadic Data Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Ann O’Connell, Sandra J. Reed, Weijia Ren & Jian Li
Multilevel Models for Ordinal Response Data: Theory and Practice
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Veronica Santelices
The Importance of Contextual and Personal Variables in Explaining Teacher Quality: Evidence Using a Standards-Based, Standardized Measure of Teacher Performance
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Shaun Dougherty, Jennifer Jennings & Dan Koretz
Modeling Accountability Gains: Evidence from New York City’s School Progress Reports
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

David Greenberg & Michael E. Ezell
Criminal Careers: Discrete or Continuous?
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

W. Holmes Finch
A Mixture IRT Analysis of Risky Youth Behavior
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Keynote Address 2

Kenneth Bollen
Model Implied Instrumental Variables (MIIVs): An Alternative Approach to Latent Variables
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Day 2 –Thursday, May 26th

Keynote Address 3

Stephen Raudenbush
Analysis of Data from Multi-Site Trials
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Concurrent Session 4

Symposium: Recent Developments from the Methodology Center at Penn State
Chair: Bethany C. Bray

  • Bethany C. Bray, Stephanie T. Lanza & Xianming Tan
    New Approaches for Expanded Latent Class Models
  • Donna L. Coffman & Daniel Almirall
    Causal Mediation in the Presence of Post-Treatment Confounders, Baseline Moderators, and Non-Randomized Treatments
  • Jessica Trail, Kevin Timms, Megan Piper, Daniel Rivera & Linda M. Collins
    Functional Data Mediational Analysis of Craving and Negative Affect in Smoking Cessation Data

[Symposium Slides, PDF]

Charles Secolsky, Kris Krishnan, Eric Magaran & Kathleen Serafino
Empirical and Cognitively-Based Judgmental Estimates of Item Difficulty Using Model-Fit Statistics in IRT and MIRT
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Tom Loeys
Disentangling Correlation Between Speed and Ability at the Subject Level and Between Intensity and Difficulty at the Item Level from Psycholinguistic Data: A Joint Modeling Approach
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Bethany Bell, Jason A. Schoeneberger, Grant B. Morgan, Min Zhu, John M. Ferron & Jeffrey D. Kromrey
Hierarchical vs. Contextual Models: Sample Size, Model Complexity, and the 30/30 Rule
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Keynote Address 4

David A. Kenny
Working with Underidentifed Structural Equation Models
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

Concurrent Session 5

Ji Hoon Ryoo
Longitudinal Model Selection of Statewide Achievement Tests at School Level by Using the Linear Mixed Model
[Presentation slides, PDF]

Karen Stamm, Deborah A. Riebe, Bryan J. Blissmer, Geoffrey W. Greene, Faith D. Lees & Phillip G. Clark
Longitudinal Mixture Modeling of Exercise and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Maintenance in Older Adults
[Presentation slides, PDF]

Stephen Tueller & Gitta Lubke
Estimating Classification Accuracy for Latent Variable Mixture Models
[Presentation slides, PDF]

David J. Francis, Tammy D. Tolar & Karla K. Stuebing
The Language-Achievement Connection for English Language Learners
[Presentation slides, PDF]

Joseph Cappelleri & Andrew G. Bushmakin
Interrelationships of Sildenafil Treatment Effects on the Physiological and Psychosocial Aspects of Erectile Dysfunction: An Application of Structural Equation Modeling
[Presentation slides, PDF]

Nicole Judith Gilinsky
Using Structural Equation Modeling to Model the Relationships Between Physical Activity and Academic Outcomes
[Presentation slides, PDF]

Keynote Address 5

Joshua Angrist
Instrumental Variables in Action: Sometimes You get What You Need
[Presentation Slides, PDF]

http://www.modeling.uconn.edu/handouts.cfm
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 19:13 PM