July 9-10: Multilevel Modeling using Mplus July 11-12: Advanced Latent Growth Curve Modeling using Mplus
Website: http://oregonstate.edu/~hofers/OSU_SI/
About the Summer Institute
The Summer Institute on Research Methodology will be held July 9 to 12, 2007 on the Oregon State University campus, hosted by the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS). Research methodology is central to the health and human sciences. The complexity of developmental, social, and health processes require rigorous attention to measurement, sampling, design, and statistical analysis.
Introductory and advanced courses will be offered by the Methodology Core over a period of four days (two days each) during the summer months. The 2007 introductory course provides instruction in the concepts and application of multilevel models, and their implementation using Mplus. Participants will be expected to be familiar with the General Linear Model. The advanced course will focus on the analysis of change using Mplus and will require some degree of prior experience in multilevel modeling, which may be obtained in the introductory course offering. These two courses can be taken independently or combined. The courses will be team taught and draw on the faculty expertise in the College of Health and Human Sciences, at Oregon State University. Applied examples will be used throughout the workshops, with hands-on analysis experience making use of several available data sets.
July 9-10: Introductory Course: Multilevel Modeling using Mplus (Alan Acock, Sam Vuchinich). Participants will learn how to use the Mplus software for the analysis of nested data structures, including family and longitudinal data.
July 11-12: Advanced Course: Latent Growth Curve Modeling using Mplus (Terry Duncan, Alan Acock, Scott Hofer). This workshop will review latent growth curve modeling using the Mplus software and feature the extension of these basic models for multivariate outcomes, time-varying predictors, growth models with ordered categorical outcomes, and analysis of growth mixtures (i.e., group differences in trajectories).
Registration
The registration fee for each of the basic and advanced courses is $250, or $450 for the combined courses ($150 and $300 for graduate students). These fees include all workshop materials, use of a laptop computer containing all relevant software and programs (each shared between two individuals), lunch and coffee breaks every day, and one dinner reception per two-day workshop. Please register using the online form available on the website.
Please see the 2007 Summer Institute website (http://oregonstate.edu/~hofers/OSU_SI/) for details regarding course material, faculty, registration, travel and accommodation, and contact information.
