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Quantitative Methods Colloquium

QM Colloquium Series Schedule, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Department of Psychology & Human Development

Time: Mondays, 2:00pm - 3:30pm (unless otherwise noted)
Organizer: Sonya Sterba
September 2
 		Labor Day
September 9
 		Searching for what's not in the data: The challenges of causal inference and the usefulness of behavior genetics
Brian Boutwell, Quantitative Genetics & Population Health Science, University of Mississippi
September 16
 		Revised network loadings
Alex Christensen, Quantitative Methods & Data Science, Vanderbilt University
September 23
 		Statistical analyses with indices of linguistic features
Wesley Morris, Cognitive Science & Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
September 30 Explanatory item response models with random forests and interpretable machine learning
Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
 Another bias-adjusted estimate of RMSEA
Hao Wu, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
October 7
 		Integer programming in psychology: A review and directions for future research
Michael Brusco, Business Analytics, Florida State University
October 14
 		Automated deidentification of student writing
Langdon Holmes, Computational Linguistics, Quantitative Methods, & Cognition in Context, Vanderbilt University
October 21
 		Confirmatory mixture models for investigating contextual correlates of response behavior in ecological momentary assessments
Esther Ulitzsch, Educational Measurement, University of Oslo
October 28
 		AI-augmented analytics and research
Jesse Spencer Smith, Director & Chief Data Scientist, Data Science Institute & Dept. of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
November 4
 		Ask what you mean and mean what you ask: Strategic reparameterization of latent growth curve models
Yi Feng, Quantitative Psychology, UCLA
 Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
November 11
 		Taking the left-hand path: Ten years as an applied psychologist (Invited QM Program Alumni Colloquium)
Harrison Kell, Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO)
November 18
 		Thanksgiving potluck
November 25
 		Thanksgiving break
December 2
 		Relations of positive and negative emotion reactivity to depressive symptoms: A multimethod approach
George Abitante, Clinical Science & Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
January 6
 		Distinguishing cause from effect in psychological research
Dexin Shi, Quantitative Psychology, University of South Carolina
January 13
 		The utility of advanced statistical methods in the CritQuant paradigm of quantitative research
Andres Pinedo, Human & Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University
January 20
 		Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 27
 		Pros and cons of the simple sum score on tests and questionnaires
Klaas Sijtsma, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University
 Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
February 3
 		Violations of item interchangeability complicate construct validation efforts
Ashley Watts, Clinical Science, Vanderbilt University
February 10
 		Mapping binary data: distributions matter—They really matter
Andy Tomarken, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
February 17
 		Dispatches from the borderlands of academia: Quantitative careers in industry
Invited QM Program Alumni Colloquium
Mark Lachowicz, American Institutes for Research (AIR)
February 24
 		Evaluating effects of interventions on disparity in health and healthcare decisions
John Jackson, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins University
 Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
March 3
 		Annie Belloeil, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
March 10
 		Spring break
March 17
 		Jeongwon Choi, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
March 24
 		Gabriella Noreen, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
March 31
 		Amy Liang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
April 7
 		Alexandros (Alex) Nikolaidis-Konstas, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
Yujia He, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
April 14
 		Sayaka (Saya) Takeuchi, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
Weichen Sun, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
Meredith Powers, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
April 21
 		Sophia Mueller, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University
Josh (Kaicheng) Zhang, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt

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