Program

Psychoco 2017

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Thursday, February 9

13:00

Welcome

13:10

Patrick Mair

Psychometrics in R: A Roundtrip through Latent and Not-so-Latent Variables
[abstract] [slides]

Coffee break

14:30

Michela Battauz

On Wald Tests for Differential Item Functioning Detection
[abstract] [slides]

14:55

Ruggero Bellio

Practical Higher-Order Inference on Person Parameters in IRT Models
[abstract] [slides]

15:20

David Magis

A Modified Graded Response Model to Account for Guessing in Multiple-Choice Items
[abstract] [slides]

15:45

Thomas Rusch, Patrick Mair, Kurt Hornik

The STOPS Framework for Parameter Selection in Multidimensional Scaling
[abstract] [slides]

Coffee break

16:35

Terrence D. Jorgensen

Modern Missing-Data Methods Implemented in the R Package semTools
[abstract] [slides]

17:00

Ivailo Partchev, Robert Zwitser, Daniel van der Palm, Timo Bechger, Gunter Maris

Introducing dexter: An R Package for Managing and Analysing Test Data
[abstract]

17:25

Remi Piatek

BayesFM - Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis
[abstract] [slides]

17:50

San Verhavert, Sven De Maeyer, Vincent Donche

The Method of Comparative Judgement for Assessment and Research
[abstract] [slides]

Dinner (Salm Bräu, Rennweg 8, 1030 Wien)

Friday, February 10

09:00

Rainer Alexandrowicz, Axel Zinkernagel, Tanja Lischetzke, Manfred Schmitt

BlenderFace - A Package for Evaluating Rater-Free Video-Based Measurement of Facial Movements
[abstract] [slides]

09:25

Patricia Martinkova, Adela Drabinova, Jakub Houdek

Interactive and Step by Step Analyses of Test and Item Properties with ‘difNLR’ and ‘ShinyItemAnalysis’
[abstract] [slides]

09:50

Don van den Bergh, Francis Tuerlinckx, Stijn Verdonck

An R Package for Analyzing Two Choice Reaction Time Data with the D*M Method
[abstract] [slides]

10:15

Peter van Rijn

More Estimation of Speed-Accuracy Response Models
[abstract] [slides]

Coffee break

11:00

Nathan J. Carrol

Fixed Effects in Non-Linear Panel Data Models - Reducing the Bias
[abstract] [slides]

11:25

Lianne Ippel, Maurits C. Kaptein, Jeroen K. Vermunt

Estimating Statistical Models on Data Streams
[abstract] [slides]

11:50

Kathrin Gruber, Klaus Miller

Breaking News are Worth Paying For? Exogenous Demand Shocks and the Effect of Paywalls on Online Newspaper Readership
[abstract] [slides]

Lunch break

13:30

Heidi Seibold, Achim Zeileis, Torsten Hothorn

Individual Treatment Effect Prediction Using Model-Based Random Forests
[abstract] [slides]

13:55

Marjolein Fokkema

pre: An R Package for Deriving Prediction Rule Ensembles
[abstract] [slides]

14:20

Michel Philipp, Carolin Strobl, Thomas Rusch, Kurt Hornik, Achim Zeileis

Stability Assessment for Trees and Other Supervised Statistical Learning Results
[abstract] [slides]

14:45

Stella Bollmann, Rudolf Debelak, Carolin Strobl

First Results of a Survey on the Diversity of the R Community
[abstract] [slides]

Coffee break

15:30

Jonas Haslbeck

Estimating Time-Varying Mixed Graphical Models
[abstract] [slides]

15:55

Georg Hosoya

Introducing ‘ludwig’ - A Package for the Statistical Examination of Undirected Binary Networks
[abstract] [slides]

16:20

Ravi Selker, Jonathon Love, Damian Dropmann

jamovi - A Free Alternative to SPSS That Allows R Developers to Publish Analyses with Rich User Interfaces
[abstract] [slides]

Dinner