New paper w/ Roy Levy These 2 path diagrams are conceptually different (regression with a latent predictor that has 3 indicators vs. a factor model with 4 indicators) but they are mathematically equivalent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... /1
Psychology really needs to go back to square 1 on measurement. Even the major replications haven’t taken the lack of valid measures seriously. We are making up questions and questionnaires daily w/o validating constructs or tasks. This means our foundation is seriously shaky @jkflake.bsky.social
Yesterday I spent the day at an interdisciplinary meeting about rigor in science. It was a little depressing in what we are still working through regarding poor practices and incentives in science. Also, uplifting in that the movement to rectify the issues-has/is creating tools to move forward 1/n
How do we measure experiences of loneliness in daily life? A thread for clinical psychologists, relationship scientists, EMA nerds, and measurement geeks 🧵👇 Preregistration, data, analysis scripts, and materials at osf.io/cwgme/#psychscisky#rstats#statssky
"Dynamic structural equation models with binary and ordinal outcomes in Mplus" - comes with a handy MPlus tutorial! link.springer.com/article/10.3...@dmcneish.bsky.social Somers & Savord
Follow Dan because chances are that if you are wishing for a paper on an under-documented yet essential stats thing, he will have written it within the next 30 days
Most papers comparing clustered data methods use biostat/econ language, so I tried to write one using psyc/ed language that covers the origin of the independence assumption, how each method handles ind. violations, and types of questions best-suited for each method psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
Now in press at MBR, led by Lydia Speyer: Within person moderation in intensive longitudinal data using 2 level DSEM, pushing against the borders of what Mplus can do (coming soon: Everything ported to Rstan) #StatsSky#PsychSciSkyosf.io/preprints/ps...
We are hiring at the University of Michigan Depression Denter. The goal is clear. Move the needle on improving mental health. But the task is hard. So we are building a multidisciplinary team. Positions are open at all ranks and in any relevant discipline. depressioncenter.org/about/facult...