Graduate Students Mary Kate Koch and Kaylin Ratner will be attending a 5 day statistical seminar from the American Psychological Association on structural equation modeling in longitudinal research. This advanced training institute is open to 35 people and will be held in Tempe Arizona May 30th-June 3rd.
The APA describes this seminar as, “designed to highlight recent methodological advances in the analysis of longitudinal psychological data using structural equation modeling (SEM). The training is intended for faculty, postdocs and advanced graduate students who have had an introduction to SEM. The workshop covers a range of topics, including growth models, factorial invariance, dealing with incomplete data, growth mixture models, ordinal outcomes, and latent change score models”.