Psychoco: Psychometric computing

Program

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Thursday, February 27

Chair: Philipp Doebler
13:00 Welcome
13:15 Rudolf Debelak Score-Based Measurement Invariance Tests for Multistage Testing [abstract] [slides]
13:38 Letty Koopman Mokken's Scalability Coefficients for Multilevel Data [abstract] [slides]
14:00 Michela Battauz Shrinkage Estimation of the Three-Parameter Logistic Model [abstract] [slides]
14:23 Philip Tzvi Reiss Functional Data Analysis with the refund Package [abstract] [slides]

14:45 Coffee break

Chair: Florian Wickelmaier
15:30 Timo von Oertzen Mean Comparisons under Uncertainty or Missing Groups [abstract] [slides]
15:53 Boris Forthmann Are Longer Verbal Expressions Really Semantically More Similar to Each Other? An Investigation of the Elaboration-Bias in Vector- Based Models of Word Meaning [abstract] [slides]
16:15 Stefano Noventa Representing Probabilistic Models of Knowledge Space Theory by Multinomial Processing Tree Models [abstract]  
16:38 Mariia Mazorchuk PISA Data Analysis Leveraging R: Pros and Cons [abstract] [slides]

19:00 Dinner (Nhy Star, Hansastraße 24)



Friday, February 28

Chair: Carolin Strobl
09:15 Achim Zeileis The Power of Unbiased Recursive Partitioning: A Unifying View of CTree, MOB, and GUIDE [abstract] [slides]
09:38 Lennart Schneider Stability Assessment of Tree Ensembles and Psychotrees [abstract] [slides]
10:00 Markus Löcher Unbiased Variable Importance for Random Forests [abstract] [slides]

10:25 Coffee break

Chair: Achim Zeileis
11:00 Niels Smits The Apriori Algorithm as an Engine for Computerized Adaptive Assessment [abstract] [slides]
11:23 Andreas Alfons Robust Mediation Analysis in R Using Package robmed [abstract]  
11:45 Thilo Welz Fisher-z Based Confidence Intervals of Correlations in Fixed and Random-Effects Meta-Analysis [abstract] [slides]
12:08 Charles Driver Information Theoretic Approaches for Quantifying Model Misspecification [abstract] [slides]

12:30 Lunch break

Chair: Michela Battauz
14:15 Hannelies de Jonge Dealing with Artificially Dichotomized Variables in Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling [abstract] [slides]
14:38 Alexander Robitzsch Structural Equation Modeling for Social Relations Models: The R Package srm [abstract] [slides]
15:00 Benedikt Langenberg The semnova Package for Latent Repeated Measures ANOVA [abstract] [slides]
15:23 Yves Rosseel Improving the Success Rate of Optimization Algorithms in Psychometric Software [abstract] [slides]

15:45 Closing