Psychoco: Psychometric computing

Program

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Thursday, February 9

13:00 Welcome
13:15 Rune HB Christensen Psychometric and Statistical Models in the R Packages sensR and ordinal [abstract] [slides]
14:00 Florian Wickelmaier Parameter Estimation in Probabilistic Knowledge Structures with the pks Package [abstract] [slides]
14:30 Edgar C Merkle Generalized Measurement Invariance Tests for Factor Analysis [abstract] [slides]

Coffee break

15:30 Ingrid Koller Quasi-Exact Tests for the Rasch Model in eRm [abstract] [slides]
16:00 Kathrin Gruber Generating Matrices with Ordinal Responses and Fixed Margins [abstract] [slides]
16:30 David Firth Bias Reduction in the Estimation of Rasch Models [abstract] [slides]
17:00 Hannah Frick Mixtures of Rasch Models with R Package psychomix [abstract] [slides]

Coffee break

18:00 Darja Tutschkow A Bayesian Test for the Hot Hand Phenomenon [abstract] [slides]
18:30 Cristina Bostan What Do We Know about Health Based on Capacity vs. Performance? [abstract] [slides]

Dinner (Stiftskeller)



Friday, February 10

09:00 Yves Rosseel lavaan and the History of Structural Equation Modeling [abstract] [slides]
09:30 Tobias Koch A Simulation Study on the Performance of a Longitudinal Multilevel CTC(M-1) Model Using MplusAutomation [abstract] [slides]
10:00 Manuel JA Eugster A Unified Syntax for Structural Equation Modeling [abstract] [slides]

Coffee break

11:00 Ingo Nader Investigating Dimensionality by Means of Mokken Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis [abstract] [slides]
11:30 Rainer Alexandrowicz Comparing Missing Values Handling Algorithms in the Context of the Rasch Model [abstract] [slides]
12:00 Karoline Sachse eat: An R Package for Automation of Data Preparation and IRT Modeling [abstract] [slides]

Lunch break

14:00 Carolin Strobl Detecting Differential Item and Differential Step Functioning with Partial Credit Trees [abstract] [slides]
14:30 Georg Hosoya Maximum Entropy Models: A Framework for IRT Modeling? [abstract] [slides]
15:00 Ivailo Partchev Estimating Hierarchical Structure GLMM Item Response Models in R [abstract] [slides]

Dinner (Cammerlander)