Statistics for Psychosocial Research I:  Measurement Models

Instructors:

William Eaton Department of Mental Health Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University weaton@jhsph.edu

Jeannie-Marie Sheppard Leoutsakos Department of Mental Health Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University jsheppar@jhsph.edu

Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer Division of Biostatistics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Johns Hopkins University esg@jhu.edu

Syllabus

Lectures

Date	Topic	Instructor
F Sep 1	Introduction to Measurement	WE
W Sep 6	Association and Dimensionality	EGM
M Sep 11	Reliability I	WE
W Sep 13	Reliability II	JSL
M Sep 18	Validity I	WE
W Sep 20	Validity II	JSL
M Sep 25	Scale Development	WE
W Sep 27	Factor Analysis I	EGM
M Oct 2	Factor Analysis II	EGM
W Oct 4	Factor Analysis Examples	EGM
M Oct 9	Latent Class Analysis I	EGM
W Oct 11	Latent Class Analysis II	EGM
M Oct 16	Latent Class Examples	JSL
W Oct 18	Sample Size Issues in Factor Analysis and Latent Class Analysis	EGM

Problem Sets and Data

Problem Set 1	Data (txt or dta), Codebook	Handouts:  1 , 2	Answer Key
Problem Set 2	Data (txt or dta),  Codebook	Handouts: 1 , 2, 3	Answer Key
Problem Set 3	Data	Handouts: 1	Answer Key

Sample final exam information

Sample exam questions, more sample exam questions

Answer Key for Sample Questions

Other Handouts

Maccallum et al. article on sample size in factor analysis

Matrix Operations

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