New Methods - PROGRAM

The NEW METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF FAMILY AND DYADIC PROCESSES conference

FRIDAY, October 13
The Amherst Room, 10th floor, Lincoln Campus Center

4:30-5:30 p.m.
REGISTRATION

5:30-7:30 p.m.
OPENING SESSION and RECEPTION (Remarks at 6:00 p.m.)

SATURDAY, October 14
 Flavin Auditorium (Room 137 in the Isenberg School)

8:30-9:00 a.m. - Dr. David Kenny, University of Connecticut
Introduction to Dyadic Data Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities

9:00-10:00 a.m.- Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, University of Delaware Statistical and methodological issues in the use of diary methods to study dyadic and family processes

10:00-11:00 a.m. - Dr. Niall Bolger, Columbia University
Mediation in multilevel models for family and dyadic data

11:00-11:15 a.m. - BREAK

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Dr. David Kenny, University of Connecticut
Moderator Effect in the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model

12:15-1:30 p.m. - LUNCH

1:30-2:30 p.m. - Dr. Joseph Olsen, Brigham Young University
Structural equation models for exchangeable and distinguishable dyads and small groups

2:30-3:30 p.m. - Dr. Garrett Fitzmaurice, Harvard Medical School
Multivariate regression models for analyzing data from multiple informants

3:30-3:45 p.m. - BREAK

3:45-4:45 p.m. - Dr. Recai M. Yucel, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Multiple imputation for incomplete multilevel data with SHRIMP

5:30-7:30 p.m. - POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
The Cape Cod Lounge in the Student Union

SUNDAY, October 15
Flavin Auditorium

8:30-9:30 a.m. - Dr. Alan C. Acock, Oregon State University
Extensions of growth modeling of family processes to applications with binary and zero-inflated count data

9:30-10:30 a.m. - Dr. J. Scott Long, Indiana University
Comparing group effects in logit and probit models

10:30-10:45 a.m. - BREAK

10:45-11:45 a.m - Dr. Daniel Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University
Causal inferences with group-based trajectory models

12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. - LUNCH

1:00-2:00 p.m. - Dr. Steven Boker, Notre Dame
Modeling dyadic and family processes as dynamical systems: An application to the regulation of intimacy and disclosure in marriage

2:00-3:00 p.m. - Dr. Ronald Hambleton, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Applications of item response theory to improve health outcomes assessment

3:00-4:00 p.m.- Dr. Aline Sayer and Dr. Sally Powers, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Trajectories of Physiological Measures in Longitudinal Dyads

4:00 p.m. - CLOSING REMARKS