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LIVE STREAM – 4-day Statistics Short Course

Seminar Overview:

A comprehensive 4-day Stats Camp seminar on Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling.

Seminar Topics:

  • Design and measurement considerations in longitudinal research
  • Building and evaluating a longitudinal SEM
  • Latent Panel SEMs
  • Evaluating longitudinal measurement invariance
  • Multiple group longitudinal SEM
  • Latent Mediation SEM
  • Latent growth curve analysis
  • Additional considerations for longitudinal modeling such as missing data and parceling

Seminar Description:

This camp is an advanced intensive short course in the analysis of longitudinal data using SEM. The course includes a series of live lectures along with time for individual and group consultation time to provide participants with the tools needed to use of SEM for the analysis of longitudinal data. If you already have a strong background in the application of SEM to analyze the covariance structure of multivariate data and you need to learn how to apply more advanced models to longitudinal data, this course is for you. Participants from a variety of fields, including sociology, psychology, education, human development, marketing, business, biology, medicine, political science, and communication, will benefit from the course.

Participants will receive a link to the course materials by the first day that includes lecture slides, software example scripts (in Mplus, lavaan, and LISREL), relevant supporting documentation, and recommended readings. Participants will receive a link to the course video recording at the end of the camp.

Instructor: Todd Little, Ph.D.

Todd D. Little, Ph.D. is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Texas Tech University (TTU). Little is internationally recognized for his quantitative work on various aspects of applied SEM (e.g., indicator selection, parceling, modeling developmental processes) as well as his substantive developmental research (e.g., action-control processes and motivation, coping, and self-regulation). Prior to joining TTU, Little has guided quantitative training and provided consultation to students, staff, and faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development’s Center for Lifespan Studies (1991-1998), Yale University’s Department of Psychology (1998-2002), and researchers at KU (2002-2013, including as director of the RDA unit at the Lifespan Institute and as director of the Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis). In 2001, Little was elected to membership in the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, a restricted-membership society of quantitative specialists in the behavioral and social sciences.

In 2009, he was elected President of APA’s Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics). He founded, organizes, and teaches in the internationally renowned ‘Stats Camps’ each June (see statscamp.org for details of the summer training programs) and has given over 150 workshops and talks on methodology topics around the world. As an interdisciplinary-oriented collaborator, Little has published with over 280 persons from around the world in over 65 different peer-reviewed journals. His work has garnered over 11,000 citations. He published Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling in 2013 and he has edited five books related to methodology, including the Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods and the Guildford Handbook of Developmental Research Methods (with Brett Laursen and Noel Card). Little has served on numerous grant review panels for federal agencies such as NSF, NIH, and IES, and private foundations such as the Jacobs Foundation. He has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over 15 grants and contracts and he has served as a statistical consultant on over 70 grants and contracts. In the conduct of his collaborative research, he has participated in the development of over 12 different measurement tools, including the CAMI, the Multi-CAM, the BALES, the BISC, the I FEEL, and the form/function decomposition of aggression.

Instructor: Zachary Stickley, Ph.D.

Structural Equation Modeling Course with Zack Stickly

Zachary, Ph.D. is a senior research scientist at Yhat Enterprises LLC. where he pursues his research interests in measurement design, applied latent variable modeling, and modern approaches to missing data. Dr. Stickley has also served as an instructor and coordinator for the Stats Camp Foundation since first joining the team as a graduate student in 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from College of Education at Texas Tech University with a focus on research methodology, measurement design, and statistical modeling. He received his Master of Education degree from Texas Tech University and his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Tarleton State University.

APA Continuing Education Credits:

This course offers 16 hours of Continuing Education Credits. Stats Camp Foundation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Stats Camp Foundation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Seminar Includes:

Materials, downloads, recorded course video viewable for up to one year.

Learning Objectives:

This comprehensive 4-day statistics training institute on Longitudinal SEM will enable participants to:

  • Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different models that can be applied to longitudinal data.
  • Develop a clear understanding of how the models can be specified and adapted to address the specific needs and questions of the investigator.
  • Gain knowledge of the ways in which one should formulate models, test alternative models, and evaluate models with regard to statistical and practical significance.

Seminar Prerequisites:

Required:

  • Proficiency in multiple linear regression.
  • At least limited experience (e.g., graduate-level course) with continuous latent variable models, e.g., exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA; CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM).
  • We strongly recommend that you attend our foundations of SEM as a pre-requisite to taking this advanced course. If you have not taken the foundations course, you should have extensive experience or have taken a graduate-level course on SEM before enrolling.
  • Intermediate proficiency with at least one statistical software package (e.g., SPSS, Stata, SAS, R, LISREL, Mplus, etc.).

Not required but advantageous:

  • At least limited experience (e.g., graduate-level course) with multivariate data analysis.

No level of proficiency beyond basic awareness is assumed for skills related to:

  • Longitudinal SEM.
  • Advanced mathematical or statistical topics such as matrix algebra or likelihood theory.

Software and Computer Support:

Participants need a laptop computer with Wi-Fi and webcam capabilities.

All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.

All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.

Day 1  
9:00-10:45 Welcome and Introductions. Overview of Longitudinal Models
10:45-11:00 Snack and Refreshment Break
11:00-12:30 Review of Foundations of SEM
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 Parcels and Parceling
Day 2
9:00-10:45 Design and Measurement Issues in Longitudinal Modeling
10:45-11:00 Snacks and Refreshment Break
11:00-12:30 Longitudinal Panel Models: Basics
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 Multiple-group Longitudinal Panel Models: CFA, SEM, & RI-CLPM
Day 3  
9:00-10:45 Mixture Modeling
10:45-11:00 Snack and Refreshment Break
11:00-12:30 Mixture Modeling
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break & Individual Consultations
1:30-2:30 Longitudinal Mediation
2:30-3:00 Individual Consultations
Day 4
9:00-10:45 Latent Growth Curve Modeling: Basics & Multivariate and Multiple Groups
10:45-11:00 Snacks and Refreshment Break
11:00-12:30 Missing Data: Planned and Unplanned
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break & Individual Consultations
1:30-2:30 Longitudinal Moderation
2:30-3:00 Wrap-up then Individual Consultations

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