Past Methods Lunches
Fall 2006
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9/8 | Ken Levy & Rachel Wasserman | Designing longitudinal studies to examine the process accounting for treatment effects across three different types of psychotherapy. |
| 9/15 | Nilam Ram | Cooking with Factor Analysis: Using the Rotisserie to Make 3 Flavors of "Invariance" |
| 9/22 | ||
| 9/29 | ||
| 10/6 | ||
| 10/13 | ||
| 10/20 | Rachel Wasserman | Studying process in psychotherapy outcomes |
| 10/27 | Kelly Rulison | Social network analysis and multilevel modeling |
| 11/3 | ||
| 11/10 | Tina Savla | Assessing differential trajectories in (very) short-term trajectories |
| 11/17 | No session (GSA) | |
| 12/1 | Lori Francis | The connection between externalizing behaviors and obesity |
| 12/8 | Beau Abar |
Spring 2006
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1/17/06 | Eric Loken |
Using propensity score estimation for causal analysis in observational studies |
| 1/24/06 | NO LUNCH- Candidate meeting with Graduate Students-S136 Henderson | |
| 1/31/06 | ||
| 2/7/06 | Megan Patrick and Eric Loken | Causal inference of the longitudinal impact of early onset of drinking |
| 2/14/06 | Sean Banks | Adjusting for compliance in field physiological data collection |
| 2/21/06 | Eric Loken | Methods for assessing bias in self-reports of dietary intake |
| 2/28/06 | ||
| 3/7/06 | SPRING BREAK | NO METHODS LUNCH |
| 3/14/06 | Laura Wray & Jamie Marks |
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| 3/21/06 | Beau Abar | Interactions between gender, content and assessment in school contexts. |
| 3/28/06 | ||
| 4/4/06 | Kelly Rulison | Diffusion of family interventions through adolescent social networks |
| 4/11/06 | Sonia A. Cavigelli | Examining endocrine function and life span in rats: Differences between and within families |
| 4/18/06 | Hoben Thomas | Examining reliability of infancy measures in habituation paradigms |
| 4/25/06 | Peter Molenaar | On the correspondence between mixture and factor models. |
Fall 2005
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9/6 | Alison Ventura | Metabolic Syndrome among Adolescent Girls |
| 9/13 | Eric Loken and Kelly Rulison |
Estimating measurement parameters for web-delivered educational assessment tools |
| 9/20 | Jennifer Maggs and Megan Patrick | Longitudinal burst designs for sampling behaviors with highly variable frequency (i.e. drinking and sex) |
| 9/27 | Lesa Hoffman | Examining individual differences in short-term and long-term cognitive change within a measurement burst design |
| 10/4 | no session | |
| 10/11 | Eric Loken | Using mixture models to examine metabolic syndrome |
| 10/18 | David Almeida | Strategies for coding types of stress |
| 10/25 | Karen Auerbach | Using latent class analysis for repeated measures to study alcohol use and adult role transitions |
| 11/1 | Jeff Dew | Dealing with missing data in longitudinal family research |
| 11/8 | Rebecca Wells | Growth curve modeling of community health center performance |
| 11/15 | Sean Banks | Assessing parameters of circadian rhythms of salivary cortisol |
| 11/22 | no session | Thanksgiving week |
| 11/29 | Beau Abar | Investigating Mixture Model Approaches to Rater Reliability |
| 12/6 | Jaime Marks |
Spring 2005
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1/20/05 | Eric Loken |
Analyzing rater agreement using mixture models: An alternative to kappa? |
| 1/27/05 | Please attend the Sherri Lawson Clark colloquium in the Living Center. Dr Lawson Clark is a Candidate for the Family Policy Position in HDFS. |
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| 2/3/05 | Please attend the Greg Reynolds colloquium in the Living Center. Dr. Reynolds is a candidate for the Neuroscience Position in HDFS. | |
| 2/10/05 | Mildred Maldonado-Molina | Using latent class analysis to study acculturation strategies. |
| 2/17/05 | Jeremy Yorgason | In sickness and in health: Marital quality, health, and medical co-morbidity |
| 2/24/05 | Sean Banks | Validity of daily cortisol assessments. |
| 3/3/05 | Yetty Shobo | Risk perception and responses to perceived risks |
| 3/10/05 | SPRING BREAK |
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| 3/17/05 | Jen Wong | Daily stressors by geographic region |
| 3/24/05 | Mildred Maldonado-Molina | Using Latent Transition Analysis to examine patterns of substance use among Puerto Rican youth. |
| 3/31/05 | Kelly Rulison | Assessing peer inflluences on aggression among elementary school children |
| 4/7/05 | No Session due
to SRCD |
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| 4/14/05 | Frank Lawrence & David Wagstaff | How covariance assumptions affect multilevel model estimates |
| 4/21/05 | Kat G. | Measuringchanges in self-reports of sexual orientation among adolescents |
| 4/28/05 | Brendan Gomez | Measuring positive psychosocial development among Malaysian youth |
Fall 2004
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9/7/04 | Eric Loken
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Web-based study behavior for admissions tests. Do students cram more for the ACT than the SAT? |
| 9/14/04 | Jeffrey Dew |
Associations between assests, debts, and marital conflict. |
| 9/21/04 | Jeremy Jorganson
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Correctly specifying a cross-lag panel model to test reciprocal effects in the case of health and marital quality. |
| 9/28/04 | Yetty Shobo
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The effects of policy changes on the "quality" of U.S. immigrants. |
| 10/5/04 | Anne Conway |
Assessing dynamic properties of emotional systems. |
| 10/12/04 | Canceled |
due to Family Conference |
| 10/19/04 | Daniel Weiss |
Statistical learning and language acquisition. |
| 10/26/04 | Rachael Kelleher |
Physiological measures of infant reactivity |
| 11/2/04 | Thulitha Wickrama |
Community context of race/ethnicity and adolescent obesity. |
| 11/9/04 | Kelly Rulison and Scott Gest |
Mapping out peer social networks and reference groups in middle school populations. |
| 11/16/04 | Robert Schrauf |
Comparing Groups in Weighted Multidimensional Scaling |
| 11/23/04 | No session due to GSA | |
| 11/30/04 | David Almeida |
Sources of variability in longitudinal aging data |
| 12/7/04 | Stephanie Saunders |
Spring 2004
| 2004-SP | Speaker/Topic |
| Jan. 15 | -- no session -- |
| Jan. 22 | Measurement Invariance -- Loken & Rovine |
| Jan. 28 | Eunjeong Kang (HPA) Measurement Invariance and Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Behavior Problems |
| Feb. 5 | Sam Sturgeon: Understanding policy implications of the association between welfare expenditures and the birth rate among teenagers |
| Feb. 12 | Scott Gest & Kelly Rulison: Identifying and Describing Children's Affiliation Patterns in the Classroom |
| Feb. 19 | Scott Gest & Kelly Rulison: More on measuring peer group netowrks & accounting for classroom nesting |
| Feb. 26 | Lesa Hoffman: Coping as a Moderator of the Stress-Disease Severity Link: Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Data |
| Mar. 4 | SRA Symposia Practice Presentations - Mello, Dotterer, Tarango, Bissell & Loken |
| Mar. 11 | -- no session, Spring Break -- |
| Mar. 18 | Yetty Shobo: Polygyny in Africa - is it increasing or decreasing? |
| Mar. 25 | Thulitha Wickrama: Associations between women's economic status and infant mortality |
| Apr. 1 | Kat: Longitudinal studies of LGB Youth in NYC |
| Apr. 8 | Douglas Coatsworth: Investigating the dynamic process of intervention using microsequential analysis |
| Apr. 15 | Rob Nix: Latent Profile Analysis |
| Apr. 22 | Sarah Schoolcraft: Consequences of parental perception and overprotection in a sample of children with developmental delays |
| Apr. 29 | Ted Walls: Multilevel Autoregressive Model to describe interindividual differences in the stability of a process. |
| May 5 *** Note: Wednesday in Henderson S166 *** | Kelly Rulison: Predicting outcomes for children in friendship dyads with asymmetric aggression |
Fall 2003
| 2003-FA | Speaker/Topic |
| Sept.11 | Susan McHale -- Endogeneity in the Study of Human Development |
| Sept. 18 | Mike Rovine & Eric Loken: Latent Growth Curve Models, some technical issues affecting estimation and interpretation |
| Sept. 25 | Latent Growth Curve models continued - estimation, interpretation and the equivalence with multilevel models in HLM & proc mixed |
| Oct. 2 | Elizabeth Hay & Eva Lefkowitz: Can multi-level models address triadic family interactions? |
| Oct. 9 | Cindy Stifter: Measuring Between and Within-Subject Heart Rate Variability in Infants |
| Oct. 16 | Barbara Gray, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Smeal College of Business Administration "Conflict Styles and Conflict Frames as Predictors of Dispute Outcomes" |
| Oct. 23 | ** No session - midterm break! |
| Oct. 30 | Dan Bontempo & Scott Hofer: Evaluating factorial invariance of categorical items |
| Nov. 6 | Sean Reardon & Jacob Cheadle: Assessing bias in teacher ratings of academic performance |
| Nov. 13 | Hofer (et al.): Discussion of "The theoretical status of latent variables" Psych Review, 2003, pp. 203-219, Borsbom, Mellenbergh & van Heerden -- link to paper |
| Nov. 20 | Michael Foster: IRT models for multinomial outcomes |
| Nov. 27 | ** no session Thanksgiving ** |
| Dec. 4 | David Conroy: Dyadic interactions and the regulation of interpersonal fields |
| Dec. 11 | Rebecca Holland: Assessing pre-school factors associated with early literacy achievement |
Fall 2002
2002-FA |
Speaker/Topic |
| Sept. 5 | Laudii Jahromi: Assessing Mother-Infant Contingencies in Emotion Regulation |
| Sept. 12 | More on Assessing Mother-Infant Contingencies in Emotion Regulation |
| Sept. 19 | --meeting cancelled due to candidate visit |
| Sept. 26 | Arcel Vazquez: |
| Oct. 3 | Erin Hiley Sharp & Connie Flanagan: |
| Oct. 10 | Scott Hofer and Daniel Bontempo: Estimating associations among rates of change |
| Oct. 17 | Eric Loken: Statewide evaluations of academic interventions |
| Oct. 24 | Claire Kamp-Dush |
| Oct. 31 | ** no session ** |
| Nov. 7 | Frank Lawrence and David Wagstaff: Growth Mixture Models |
| Nov. 14 | Rob Nix and Doug Coatsworth: Multi-level mediational models |
| Nov. 21 | ** no session (GSA) ** Please Fill Out the Survey |
| Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving -- no meeting |
| Dec. 5 | -- meeting cancelled please attend David Almeida talk noon, Living Center |
| Dec. 10** | special time and place ** noon-1PM, Prevention Conference Room, Doug Coatsworth presenting |
| Dec. 12 | -- meeting cancelled please attend job talk |