Structural Equation Modeling Series
The mini-conference on “Causal Complexity: Non-recursive Relationship and Latent Variables” organized by QIPSR (The Quantitative Initiative for Policy and Social Research) in collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky is coming up on April 10th and 11th, 2014. We will be bringing in the world’s most renowned scholars in the field, Kenneth Bollen (Sociology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill); Rick Hoyle (Psychology, Duke University); and Sandra Marquatt-Pyatt (Sociology, Michigan State University).
The Conference Schedule is as Follows:
Thursday, April 10th
8:45 Breakfast and Introduction to the Conference
Thomas Janoski, Director of QIPSR
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Hunt Room of the Boone Conference Center
"Model-Implied Instrumental Variable Estimators for Structural Equation Models"
Shawn Bauldry, Department of Sociology, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Discussant: Carrie Oser, Sociology Department, University of Kentucky
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM:
“Substantive Paper on Environment using SEM”
Sandra Marquatt-Pyatt Department of Sociology and the Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University
Discussant: Becky Bromley-Trujillo, The Martin School of Public Policy, University of Kentucky
12:15 PM to 1:15 PM. Lunch at Boone Center
1:30 PM to 2:45 PM: Continental Room of the Boone Conference Center
“Modeling Characteristic Trajectories of Change: Possibilities and Challenges”
Rick Hoyle Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Discussant: Michelle Martel, Psychology Department, University of Kentucky
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM: Continental Room of the Boone Conference Center
“Measuring the Unmeasurable: Concepts and Latent Variables”
Kenneth Bollen, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill & Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor
Discussant: Patrick Hongwei Yang, College of Education, University of Kentucky
Reception 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Library and Bar of the Boone Conference Center.
Friday, April 11th
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Auditorium at the W. T. Young Library
Problems and New Approaches in SEM and Disseminating SEM Results to Policymakers:
Rick Hoyle, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Kenneth Bollen, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presider: Mark Peffley, Political Science, University of Kentucky
11:30 AM to 12:45 PM: The Gallery at the W. T. Young Library
Workshop - 1: “Using SEM in STATA”
Dominique Zephyr Statistics Consulting Laboratory, University of Kentucky.
Workshop - 2: “Using Model-Implied Instrumental Variables (miivfind) in M+”
Shawn Bauldry Sociology Department, University of Alabama Birmingham.
May 14-16
We will be continuing with an intensive three day workshop in Structural Equation Modeling by Sandra Marquatt-Pyatt, who teaches SEM both at Michigan State University and at the ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan
