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
 
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.

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
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
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
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
Correctly specifying a cross-lag panel model to test reciprocal effects in the case of health and marital quality.
9/28/04
Yetty Shobo
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