Pamela Peters recently took 3rd place for her paper entitled, “Development of the Assessment of Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Twice-Exceptionality,” at the National Association for Gifted Children’s Research and Evaluation Network Graduate Student Research Gala (Doctoral-level, Completed Research category). Congratulations on this accomplishment, Pam!
Month: November 2020
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Upcoming RMME/STAT Colloquium (11/20): Bengt Muthen, “Recent Advances in Latent Variable Modeling”
Recent Advances in Latent Variable Modeling
Bengt Muthen
Friday, November 20, 2020
11:30am -1:00pm
Abstract: This talk gives an overview of some recent and ongoing latent variable research. Borrowing ideas from multilevel factor analysis, longitudinal SEM in a single-level, wide format is formulated in a new way that finds a well-fitting model 45 years after the writing of the classic Wheaton, Muthen, Alwin, and Summers article. This segues into a generalization of latent transition analysis using the multilevel notion of a random intercept while staying in a single-level, wide format. Turning back to multilevel modeling, the talk considers time series analysis of intensive longitudinal data. This is illustrated by intervention data on electricity consumption and a randomized intervention related to positive and negative affect where cycles play a major role. Finally, the new feature in Mplus Version 8.5 of Bayesian analysis of count, nominal, and binary logit models is presented.
This session is jointly sponsored by the Statistics department and the Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation program as part of the Statistical Applications and Quantitative Research Methods colloquium series.
Tanesia Beverly Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation
Tanesia Beverly successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled, “Examining Within Person Changes in Speed in a Verbal Reasoning Test.” Congratulations, Dr. Beverly!