Program

Psychoco 2026

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Thursday, February 5 Room T2, Building 4 CLA

13:00

Welcome

Chair: Stefano Noventa

13:10

Michela Battauz

Equating of Multiple Groups and DIF Detection in the IRT Framework
[abstract] [slides]

13:55

David Kronthaler

Itemwise and Global Equivalence Tests for Uniform DIF under the Rasch Model
[abstract] [slides]

14:13

Livio Finos

Development of Short Test Forms within Item Response Theory: The shortIRT Package
[abstract] [slides]

14:31

Susanne Frick

Cross-Classified Hidden Markov Models for Analyzing Response Strategies
[abstract] [slides]

14:49

Stefano Noventa

On Closed-Form Maximum Likelihood Estimators for Guessing and Slipping Parameters in IRT Models
[abstract] [slides]

15:10

Group photo and coffee break (40 mins)   Room AMU, Building 5

Chair: Max Welz

15:50

Haziq Jamil

Approximate Bayesian Inference for Structural Equation Models
[abstract] [slides]

16:08

Marcos Jiménez

latent: A Reliable R Package for Latent Class Analysis
[abstract] [slides]

16:26

Tamara Vasiljev

Exploratory Generalized Bifactor Analysis via Sparse Rotation
[abstract] [slides]

16:44

Giuseppe Mignemi

Discrete Nonparametric Priors in Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Within Group Invariance Analysis
[abstract] [slides]

17:02

Max Welz

Robust Pairwise Estimation of Factor Analyses of Categorical Data
[abstract] [slides]

17:20

Sofia Morelli

Robust Latent Mediation Analysis under the No-Effect-Modification Assumption Instead of the No-Unmeasured-Confounder Assumption
[abstract] [slides]

17:38

Roberto Faleh

UNIT: Two-Stage G-Estimation for Causal Mediation with Unmeasured Confounding and High-Dimensional Covariates
[abstract] [slides]

20:00

Dinner at Ristorante Pizzeria da Pino, Via Cavour, 20, 35122 Padova

Friday, February 6 Room T2, Building 4 CLA

Chair: Achim Zeileis

09:00

Ambra Perugini

Overlapping: An Application of Permutation Test to the Overlapping Index
[abstract] [slides]

09:18

Umberto Granziol

From Hypotheses to Visualization: A Computational Workflow for Planned Contrasts in Linear Models
[abstract] [slides]

09:36

Achim Zeileis

tinyplot: Lightweight Extension of the Base R Graphics System
[abstract] [slides]

10:00

Coffee break (30 mins)   Room AMU, Building 5

Chair: Ottavia Epifania

10:30

Alice Jenisch

Evaluating the Performance of Indices for Detecting Careless Responses. A Knowledge Structure Based Simulation Study
[abstract] [slides]

10:48

Florian Wickelmaier

Fitting Bayesian Probabilistic Knowledge Structures in Stan
[abstract] [slides]

11:06

Sergey Turlo

Demand Estimation with Costly Attribute Information Integration
[abstract]

11:24

Keyvan Dehmamy

Unrounding Expectations: A Model for Heterogeneity in Probability Elicitation
[abstract]

11:42

Mario Angelelli

Human- vs. AI-Generated Tests: Dimensionality and Information Accuracy in Latent Trait Evaluation
[abstract] [slides]

12:00

Ottavia Epifania

Automatic Generation of Rule-Based Raven-Like Stimuli: The matRiks Package
[abstract] [slides]

12:20

Lunch break (1 hour and 30 mins)

Chair: Florian Wickelmaier

13:50

Loreen Sabel

Does Missing Data Invalidate Anomaly Detection?
[abstract] [slides]

14:08

Ermioni Athanasiadi

When Does Multiple Imputation Not Pay Off? Evaluating Methods to Deal with Missing Binary Outcomes in Small Samples
[abstract] [slides]

14:26

Jordane Boudesseul

How Much Evidence Is Missing? Monte Carlo Estimates of Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis
[abstract]

14:44

Stefan Inerle

Bias in Correlations of Trait Score Estimates under Measurement Non-Invariance and Its Impact on Replicability
[abstract] [slides]

15:02

Mark Van Lokeren

Confidence Sequences in Psychology
[abstract]

15:20

Closing