Methodology Workshop: Modeling Diary and Dyadic Data
The Center for Research on Families at the University of Massachusetts Amherst announces a workshop that will be of interest to members of the social and behavioral sciences, including social, clinical, and developmental psychologists, family and medical sociologists, gerontologists, social workers, communication researchers, and researchers in marketing and organizational behavior. The title of this workshop is "Modeling Diary and Dyadic Data."
Diary methods allow researchers to examine dyadic processes in daily life in a way that is not possible using traditional methods. Using diaries, researchers typically obtain many repeated observations on dyad members over days and weeks. Dyadic diary data, however, present several data analytic challenges stemming from the various sources of interdependence in these data. Not only is there non-independence between members of the dyad, there is also non-independence of observations within each dyad member. The multilevel or hierarchical linear model (HLM) provides a flexible set of analytic tools that can take account of these complexities. This workshop will begin by considering models for diary data on individuals. It will then cover models for the analysis of dyads. Finally, it will cover models for dyadic diary data. The course will devote equal time to lectures/demonstrations by the presenters and computer lab work by the participants. The main software used will be HLM6 with some advanced applications using SAS PROC MIXED and Mplus.