Mplus version 8 with our pppp-value
Very recently Mplus version 8.0 was released containing new Posterior Predictive P-values for BSEM (PPPP; Hoijtink & van deSchoot, 2017; Asparouhov & Muthén, 2017). Muthen and Asparouhov (2012) propose to evaluate model fit in structural equation models based on approximate (using small variance priors)…
New in Mplus Summer School: Retract papers with cross-lagged panel models?
Did you know you no longer should use a standard cross-lagged panel model? Longitudinal mediation analyses using a cross-lagged panel design should ALWAYS account for stable between-person differences with random-intercepts. Should we then retract all the papers without such random-intercepts…? Ellen Hamaker will answer this question…
New in our Mplus Summer School: a full day on Mediation Analysis by Milica Miočević
New this year will be a day on Mediation Analysis taught by Milica Miočević. Learn why you should not use normal theory confidence limits for testing the significance of the mediated effect, what methods for mediation analysis have the most power, and how to select the…
Sneak peek Mplus Summer School: Why the first day will feel like a roller-coaster
This summer’s 7th Mplus Summer School program will be nothing like the ones before! In the next week, I will occasionally reveal some new details to keep you guessing. This year I will be teaching the first day of the summer school. I will gently…
Sneak Peek Mplus Summer School: Nothing’s Like You Used To Know
As seven is a lucky number, we decided to push our luck this year. This summer’s 7th Mplus Summer School program will be nothing like the ones before! In the next week, I will occasionally reveal some new details to keep you guessing. For now,…
Symposium at M3 conference accepted
Bayes is growing in all disciplines! This is one of the results found by van de Schoot, Winter, Ryan, Zondervan-Zwijnenburg and Depaoli (in press) in an extensive systematic review.
Presentation about GRoLTS-Checklist
At the Meeting of the Working Group SEM (16 and 17 March 2017; Ghent, Belgium) I will present about the Guidelines for Reporting on Latent Trajectory Studies. March 16 at 14:15-14:45 Abstract: Estimating models within the mixture model framework, like Latent Growth Mixture Modeling (LGMM) or Latent Class…
APS symposium accepted: “Experts and Animals: How Can They Help Us?”
How and to what extend can we use the unique information derived from experts and animals? We discuss how expert opinions can be formalized and included in analyses, how animal studies can provide insight into human behavior, and ways to compare results from these sources…
The Very First Female Inaugural Address at Utrecht University and the Most Recent One
Another Friday, another episode of the Deep-Thinking-project. Today it is exactly 100 years ago, that the very first female inaugural address was given by Johanna Westerdijk at Utrecht University. Back then a female professor was rare, but also today it is not so common as…
Answering Big Questions with Small Samples
Another Friday, another episode of the Deep-Thinking-project. Last weekend I was interviewed by a Dutch Newspaper (Financieel Dagblad) about my work as a statistical consultant and how I deal with limited data sets as opposed to Big Data. My answer was that if you suffer…
Sign up for the 8th Mplus User Meeting
Do you use daily diaries, ecological momentary assessments (EMA), experience sampling methodology (ESM), or other ambulatory assessments in your research? Are you curious about what these data can tell you about the dynamics of processes? DSEM consists of cutting-edge techniques including time series analysis and dynamic…
Deep-thinking project postponed
Another Friday, the sun is shining, it’s a perfect day for Deep-Thinking. My previous experiment did not really work out well: hanging on one hand appeared not to be the best thinking position. Today I face another problem: Before I can actually start thinking, there…