I gave my first conference paper presentation at IMPS 2025 on process data analysis (credits to my amazing advisor @klint.bsky.social for all his support and advice) I also did my first data challenge and got a third prize (credits to my wonderful teammates Jessie and Na) #IMPS2025 #Psychometrics
Ruiting Shen
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Excited to share a new call for papers for a special issue in Psychometrika focused on Data Intensive Methods in Psychometrics that I'll be guest editing with @kyliegorney.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social, @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social, and Ben Domingue: www.psychometricsociety.org/post/call-sp...
Klint Kanopka
I've said this before, but I really love my statistical computing course. Tomorrow is one of my favorite days, where we start using MCMC.
This semester I've redone all of my slides and am hosting them on a public site, so feel free to check them out: klintkanopka.com/lecture-slid...
Apparently some people like listening to me blather on about things!
Thanks to @crahal.com for inviting me, this seminar has some amazing speakers lined up and brilliant attendees.
Wanted to hype up a software package I'm debuting today. If you do computer adaptive testing (CAT) research and are developing your own item selection/parameter update/exposure control algorithms, take a look at meow - a unified framework to make CAT simulation easier!
klintkanopka.com/meow/
Tomorrow at the PRIISM seminar: @crahal.com is going to talk to use about potential pitfalls and sources of error caused by psuedorandom number generation in social science research. Talk is at 11a eastern time on Zoom and open to anyone. RSVP here: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/respo...
My co-author demanded that the icon actually be cute instead of the horrific thing I presented at IMPS.
Incredibly proud of the work @ruitings.bsky.social did, and it’s even more impressive that she just finished the first year of her master’s program!
Marcus Krueger
If you like the slides and the site that's hosting them, feel free to check out the code that generated them here: github.com/klintkanopka...
Likert-type scales are popular in educational research and often times analyzed using parametric tests. Implied in this kind of study is a general assumption that these data are interval in nature. Th...