Program / Contributions

David Rindskopf, City University of New York, USA:
Extensions and special cases in latent class analysis
  

Brian P. Flaherty, Joseph L. Schafer, and Linda M. Collins, The Pennsylvania State University, USA:
Fit assessment and model selection in a mixed indicator latent class model
  

Stephanie T. Lanza, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, Linda M. Collins, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, :
Latent stage sequence analysis: Patterns of heavy drinking over time
  

Linda M. Collins, Brian P. Flaherty, and Zhiqun Tang, The Pennsylvania State University, USA:
Associative Latent Transition Analysis (ALTA) Models: Assessing the relation between two longitudinal stage sequences
  

Marcel Croon, Marieke Spreeuwenberg & Jacques Hagenaars, Tilburg University, The Netherlands:
Models and Methods for Analysing Data from Quasi-experiments
  

Elizabeth Stuart & Donald Rubin, Harvard University, USA:
Estimating causal effects using matching with multiple control groups
  

Felix Flory, Rolf Steyer & Andreas Klein, University of Jena, Germany / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain:
Testing average effects in regression models with interactions
  

Susanne Rässler & Oleg Müller, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany:
Evaluating an Alternative Teaching Method with Missing Covariates
  

Carmen Brosche, University of Jena, Germany:
Testing Causal Effects
  

14:15 - 14:40
Valeria Lima Passos, University of Maastricht:
Test Design Optimisation in CAT early stage with the Nominal Response Model
  

14:40 - 15:05
Otto B. Walter, Medical School of Humboldt University Berlin, Charité, Campus Mitte:
Bias reduction of Warm's weighted likelihood estimation in computerized adaptive tests with polytomous items
  

15:05 - 15:30
Ivailo Partchev, FSU Psychologie:
Online calibration of pretest items with computerized adaptive tests of variable length
  

15:30 - 15:55
Wim J. van der Linden, University of Twente:
Item Pool Management using Item Blueprint
  

15:55 - 16:20
Tom Backer Johnsen, University of Bergen:
”Hares”, ”Normals”, and ”Tortoises” in a Cognitive Abilities Test Battery -- different factor structures ?
  

16:20 - 16:45
Martijn P.F. Berger, University of Maastricht:
Test optimization for the nominal response model
  

14:15 - 14:40
Vesna Busko, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Zagreb:
Multi-Construct Latent State-Trait Model of Coping with Low-Control Situations
  

14:40 - 15:05
Albert Satorra, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona:
The persistence of abnormal returns at industry and firm levels
  

15:05 - 15:30
Stéphane Vautier, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail:
Modeling Linear Dynamic Bipolarity: Formal and Ontological Aspects
  

15:30 - 15:55
Holger Steinmetz, University of Giessen / Germany:
How invariant are measures of human values? Results from a population survey
  

15:55 - 16:20
Eldad Davidov, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Sociology:
Does Money Matter? A mixture Growth Model to Explain Travel-Mode Choice with Experimental Data
  

14:15 - 14:40
Tenko Raykov, Research Institute on Addictions, Buffalo, NY:
Estimation of maximal reliability via covariance structure modeling: Recent extensions
  

15:05 - 15:30
Robert MacCallum, University of North Carolina:
Testing Differences between Covariance Structure Models: Power Analysis and Null Hypotheses
  

15:30 - 15:55
Ab Mooijaart, University Leiden, Dep. Psychology:
Model selection in Structural Equation Models when usual assumptions are violated
  

15:55 - 16:20
Stephen Du Toit, Scientific Software Intl.:
The implementation and evaluation of SurveyGlim in LISREL 8.7
  

16:20 - 16:45
Silvia Cagnone, University of Bologna:
A comparison between correlated latent variable models
  

14:15 - 14:40
Danute Krapavickaite, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Statistics Lithuania:
Estimation of income for small sample size
  

15:05 - 15:30
Maria Eugenia Ferrao, University of Beira Interior:
Performance perception of the 4th and 8th grade students in Brazil
  

15:30 - 15:55
Sergey Gelman, Professur für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, University of Münster:
Price convergence of target stock by mergers and acquisitions under uncertainty of the deal completion.
  

16:20 - 16:45
Matthias Kraus, University of Regensburg:
New methods for the sequential analysis of group interaction processes
  

Keith Widaman, Univ. of California at Davis:
Developmental Outcomes for Children Born to Mothers with PKU: Results from the International Maternal PKU Study
  

Giorgia Molinengo, University of Turin-Department of Psychology:
Administration of Computer Adaptive Tests: an application of the Rasch Model
  

Stephane Vautier, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail:
How Does Censoring of Continuous Parallel Measurements Bias Validity of their Common Variable and Scale Reliability? A Simulation Study
  

Silvia Cagnone, University of Bologna:
An analysis of undergraduate student ability based on computer-automated testing
  

Cordeiro Raul, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Portalegre:
Physical Apearence and intimate friendship in adolescence - A study with a portuguese college students sample
  

Lola C. Duque, University of Barcelona, Centre for Research in Welfare Economy:
Public Services User Satisfaction: An Application To “Higher Education"
  

Anthony Stacey, Wits Business School:
Characterisation of Individual Opinion Change in Decision Making Groups
  

Alexander Mechenov, Moscow state university:
Method of the least distances
  

Aida Toma, Academy of Economic Studies:
Minimum Hellinger distance estimators for some multivariate distributions
  

Hans J. Vos, University of Twente; Faculty of Behavioral Sciences; Department of Research Methodology, Measurement:
A method for determining intra-assessor inconsistency in setting performance standards
  

Viktor Gelman, Medical Acad. for Postgraduate Studies:
Statistical assessment of relationship of cognitive abilities and school achievements
  

André A. Rupp, University of Ottawa:
Analytical, Numerical, and Visual Investigations of Parameter Invariance in IRT Models
  

Lucia Monroy, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico:
Adolescent suicidal behavior: Patterns and predictors
  

Oliver Schilling, Deutsches Zentrum für Alternsforschung:
Stability of Life-Satisfaction in Older Age
  

Safir Yousfi, Psychologisches Institut:
A taxonomy for predictor structures in multiple regression
  

Carsten Schmidt, Univ. Greifswald:
Item Response Theory - a software review
  

Johannes Jaenicke, University of Osnabrueck:
Detecting social interactions in bivariate probit models: Some simulation results
  

Patricia Simon, Universität Regensburg:
The development of an interaction observation system for analyzing the determinants of effectiveness in work groups
  

Jörg Michael Müller, University of Tübingen:
A generalized measure of proficiencies variability that is invariant against different parameterization of the discrimination parameter: A reply to H. Müller
  

Markus Wirtz, Institut für Psychologie:
Construction of a short-form of an assessment instrument for rehabilitation patients by Mixed-Rasch-Analysis
  

Pablo Holgado-Tello, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia:
Analysis of the Parameter Invariance through Rasch Model Fit.
  

Tairai Mino, Juntendo University:
Multivariate two-piece linear regression model with autoregressive correlated error terms
  

Alicia López-Jáuregui, Universidad del País Vasco:
Adequacy of the non parametric bootstrap for the construction of a confidence interval for the determination coefficient under conditions of non-normality
  

Mª Dolores Hidalgo, Universidad de Murcia:
Using R-FIT computer program to assess item-fit in Rasch model
  

manuel ato, Universidad de Murcia:
A comparison between four rater agreement measures
  

15:30 - 15:55
Stephane Vautier, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail:
SEM Analyses Contradict Intuitive Attributes Operationalized by Balanced Self-Ratings: The Case of State and Trait Anxiety
  

Ivailo Partchev, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena:
On Gauss the optician and Abbe the statistician
  

James Roberts, University of Maryland:
Introducing GGUM2004: A Windows-based Program to Implement Item Response Models for Unfolding
  

Linda Muthen, Muthen & Muthen:
Mplus Version 3
  

Jeroen K. Vermunt, Tilburg University:
Latent class, finite mixture, latent trait, and random-effects modeling with Latent GOLD
  

Stephen du Toit, Scientific Software International:
A selection of new features in LISREL 8.7 (July 2004 release)
  

John Graham, The Methodology Center, Penn State University, USA:
Creating Parcels for Multi-Dimensional Constructs in Structural Equation Modeling
  

Karin Schermelleh-Engel, Goethe University:
Problems of analyzing nonlinear structural equation models with latent product and quadratic terms
  

Andreas G. Klein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
The Quasi-ML approach for modeling nonlinear SEM
  

Katrin Kraus, Dept. of Information Science:
In search of the meaning of method factors in MTMM models
  

Fridtjof Nussbeck, FAPSE - Université de Genève:
The appropriateness of the wlsmv-estimator for complex MTMM-models: Results of a simulation study
  

Henry P. Wynn, London School of Economics, UK:
Directed attention: Optimal experimental design in a cognitive environment
  

Thorsten Teichert, University of Bern, Switzerland:
Preference modelling with conjoint analysis - Trends in marketing applications
  

Heiko Großmann and Heinz Holling, University of Münster, Germany, Rainer Schwabe, University of Magdeburg, Germany, :
Efficient design of linear paired comparisons
  

Peter Goos, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium:
Optimum design for linear random effects models with application to marketing experiments
  

14:00 - 14:25
Andreas Wolf, University of Jena:
Dynamic test administration using missing data imputation - a model-free way of adaptive testing
  

14:25 - 14:50
Nicola Falocci, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche - University of Perugia:
Marginal Regression Models for Incomplete Ordinal Response Variables
  

14:50 - 15:15
Susanne Rässler, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg:
Multiple Imputation for Unit-Nonresponse versus Weighting including Comparisons with Nonresponse Follow-Up Studies
  

14:00 - 14:25
David Budescu, University of Illinois:
Multivariate Dominance Analysis
  

14:25 - 14:50
Olga Mitina, Moscow State University:
Methods of the analysis of data files obtained in social studies which have dimension greater than two
  

14:50 - 15:15
M. Rosário Oliveira, Technical University of Lisbon:
Interpretation and variable selection in redundancy analysis
  

15:15 - 15:40
Dimitar Atanasov, Sofia University:
The Concept of Robustness in Scaling and Unfolding Analyses
  

14:00 - 14:25
Alain De Beuckelaer, Unilever Bestfoods NV (& Katholieke Universiteit Brussel; Limburgs Universitair Centrum):
Robustness of factor mean comparisons across populations in case one factor indicator shows measurement non-invariance across populations.
  

14:25 - 14:50
Salvador Chacón-Moscoso, University of Sevilla:
Analysis of individual and average causal effects and threats to validity
  

14:50 - 15:15
Keith Widaman, Univ. of California at Davis:
Fitting Nonstandard Structural Equation Models: Modeling Multiple-Sample Data Having Unequal Numbers of Indicators per Sample
  

15:15 - 15:40
Willem Saris, University of Amsterdam:
Comparability of measures across languages
  

14:00 - 14:25
Michael Höfler, Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie:
Visualizing etiological pathways with association chain graphs
  

14:25 - 14:50
Elizabeth Gifford, Penn State University:
Patient Length of Stay: An Application of Multi-Level Modeling in Health Services Research
  

14:50 - 15:15
Robert Offinger, OvG-Universität Magdeburg, IMST:
On the asymptotic null-distribution of tests at singular parameter points
  

Theodore A. Walls, The Pennsylvania State University, USA:
Intensive measurement overview
  

Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, University of Miami, USA, Steven M. Boker, University of Notre Dame, USA, :
Dynamical systems analysis of dyadic coupled systems
  

Carlotta Ching Ting Fok and James O. Ramsay, McGill University, Canada:
Interactions among periodicities in longitudinal and functional data
  

Theodore A. Walls and Michael J. Rovine, The Pennsylvania State University, USA:
Multilevel autoregressive modeling
  

Bengt Muthen, University of California, Los Angeles, California:
Applications of a general latent variable modeling framework
  

Frauke Kreuter, University of California, Los Angeles, California, Bengt Muthen & Tihomir Asparouhov, Muthen & Muthen, :
Application of growth mixture modeling to non-normal outcomes
  

Katherine E. Masyn, University of California, Los Angeles, California:
Modeling measurement error and bias in the determination of event occurrence and event timing for discrete-time survival processes using a latent variable framework
  

14:00 - 14:25
Leo J. Paas, Tilburg University / Marketing Department:
Extending Dynamic Segmentation with Lead Generation: A Latent Class Markov Analysis of Financial Product Portfolios
  

14:25 - 14:50
Johan Oud, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands:
A Comparison of Different Procedures to Estimate the Damped Linear Ocillator for Panel Data
  

14:50 - 15:15
Francesca Bassi, University of Padova - Department of Statistics:
The latent class approach for estimating gross flows in the presence of correlated classification errors, with application to data from the French labour force survey
  

15:40 - 16:05
Stephen Rathbun, Penn State University:
Point Process Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data in the Human Sciences
  

16:05 - 16:30
Beate Jahn, University of Innsbruck:
Decision Theory in Health Care - Introduction to Markov modelling in medical decision making
  

14:00 - 14:25
André A. Rupp, University of Ottawa:
An Exploratory Multi-group Approach for Carving out Differential Performance Profiles within an IRT Metric
  

14:25 - 14:50
Johannes Hartig, German Institute for International Educational Research:
Assessing the appropriateness of specifications in LLTM weight matrices
  

14:50 - 15:15
Margo G. H. Jansen, University of Groningen Department of Education/GION:
A Comparison of Latent Trait Models for Speed Tests with Different Distributional Assumptions
  

15:15 - 15:40
Tim Lossnitzer, Friedrich Schiller-Universität; Institute of Psychology:
Avoiding problematic confounding of concentration performance with externally introduced noise by the use of the Frankfurt Adaptive Concentration Test (FACT)
  

15:40 - 16:05
Samantha Cook, Harvard University:
Bayesian IRT: A Bivariate Application and Software Validation
  

16:05 - 16:30
Henk Kelderman, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam:
Graphical measurement models based on assumptions whose consequences are directly observable.
  

16:30 - 16:55
Daniël Van Nijlen, University of Leuven:
An IRT-based comparison of an item- with an examinee-centered method for standard setting.
  

14:00 - 14:25
KV Petrides, Institute of Education, University of London:
Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes Modeling (MIMIC): An Application in the Field of Educational Psychology
  

14:25 - 14:50
Hans Bay, SFI-SURVEY:
European value map
  

14:50 - 15:15
Rüdiger Mutz, Chair of Social Psychology and Research in Higher Education, ETH Zürich:
Pattern recognition in statistical analysis – An application of Fourier descriptors to identify shapes in survey research in higher education
  

15:15 - 15:40
Jörg Blasius, University of Bonn, Seminar for Sociology:
Assessing the Quality and Comparability of Data between Countries in Cross-National Studies Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis
  

15:40 - 16:05
Georg Mueller, Univ. of Fribourg / Social Science Dept.:
The Analysis of Social Cleavages: Distance- versus Attribute Models
  

16:05 - 16:30
Kazuo Amma, Tamagawa University:
Local parsing strategies of low-proficiency language learners
  

16:30 - 16:55
Dipl.-Stat. Meike Gebel, FB Statistik, Universität Dortmund, CDI-Gebäude:
On the evaluation of multiple choice competitions in mathematical problem solving
  

14:00 - 14:25
Kees Van Montfort, Free University Amsterdam:
Factor analysis for non-normal variables
  

14:25 - 14:50
Karl Joreskog, Dept of Information Science:
Censored Regression
  

14:50 - 15:15
Fan Wallentin, Dept. of Information Science:
Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Ordinal Variables: A Simulation Study
  

15:15 - 15:40
Philipp Yorck Herzberg, TU Dresden:
The performance of maximum likelihood (ML) versus means and variance adjusted weighted least square (WLSMV) estimation in confirmatory factor analysis
  

15:40 - 16:05
Eric Loken, Pennsylvania State University:
Identification Issues in Latent Trait Models
  

16:05 - 16:30
Wolfgang Langer, Dr., Martin-Luther-Universität, Institut für Soziologie:
The Assessment of Fit in the Class of Structural Equation Models: A Pathway out of the Jungle of Fit Indexes
  

Gert Jacobusse, Stef van Buuren & Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, the Netherlands.:
Multiple imputation of missing data in a multilevel setting
  

Gerty Lensvelt-Mulders & Cora Maas, Utrecht University, the Netherlands:
Multilevel Analysis of Genetic Data
  

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh & Anders Skrondal, University of California, Berkeley, USA / Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway:
On the use of composite links in multilevel latent variable models
  

Mark Wilson, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Paul De Boeck, University of Leuven, Belgium, :
Explanatory measurement models
  

Derek Briggs, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, Frank Rijmen, University of Leuven, Belgium, :
Multidimensionality and Latent Item Predictors as Extensions to Item Response Modeling under a GLMM Framework
  

Michel Meulders, University of Leuven, Belgium, Yiyu Xie, University of California, Berkeley, USA, :
The use of person-by-item predictors in item-response modeling
  

Paul De Boeck, University of Leuven, Belgium, Mark Wilson, University of California, Berkeley, USA, :
Explanatory measurement: further extensions
  

14:15 - 14:40
Aleksandras Plikusas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Statistics Lithuania:
Calibrated estimators of the ratio
  

14:40 - 15:05
Sergiy Shklyar, Taras Shevchenko University:
Comparison of three estimators in the Poisson errors-in-variables model
  

15:05 - 15:30
Gösta Hägglund, Dept, of Statistics, Stockholm University:
Estimation of the correlation coefficient based on selectad data
  

15:30 - 15:55
Safir Yousfi, Psychologisches Institut:
Myths and paradoxes in the realm of classical test theory
  

15:55 - 16:20
Wolfgang Neubarth, ZUMA:
Multivariate simulation of innovations diffusion.
  

14:15 - 14:40
Jost Reinecke, Fachbereich IV - Soziologie:
The Development of Deviant and Delinquent Behavior of Adolescents: Applications of Growth Curves and Growth Mixture Models
  

14:40 - 15:05
Guy Notelaers, KUL:
Assessing equivalence of measurement within the framework of Latent Class Analysis.
  

15:05 - 15:30
M. Fatima Salgueiro, ISCTE Business School - Lisbon:
The observed association structure from graphical log-linear models with a binary latent variable
  

15:30 - 15:55
Eric Loken, Pennsylvania State University:
Label Switching in Mixture Models
  

14:15 - 14:40
Andras Vargha, ELTE Institute of Psychology:
A new nonparametric two-way ANOVA model for ordinal dependent variables
  

14:40 - 15:05
Francisca Galindo-Garre, Tilburg University:
Testing Models with Inequality Constraints in Contingency Tables Using Posterior Predictive Check Distributions
  

15:05 - 15:30
Tania Huedo-Medina, University of Murcia:
Statistical Performance of the I^2 Index to Assess the Heterogeneity in a Meta-analysis
  

15:30 - 15:55
Johann Bacher, Lst. für Soziologie:
New Development in Cluster Analysis
  

15:55 - 16:20
Jörg Betzin, Technical University of Berlin:
PLS path models with categorical indicators - a correspondence analytical approach