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Back to SearchS5E21 Multilevel Factor Analysis: But What Do The Factors Mean?!
Season 5 Episode 21
In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick talk about the challenges of combining confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel data, and the underapprec…
2 years, 4 months ago
S5E20 Local fit...Because Global Fit Measures Suck!
Season 5 Episode 20
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick discuss the assessment of global vs. local model fit and they argue that although global measures of fit can …
2 years, 4 months ago
S5E19 Item Response Theory, Q.E.D.
Season 5 Episode 19
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg provide an introduction to the Item Response Theory model: what it is, how it relates to traditional factor a…
2 years, 5 months ago
S5E18 Probability on Spring Break
Season 5 Episode 18
In this week’s episode, Patrick and Greg play with some of the basics of probability in the context of some classic, fun, and often counterintuitive …
2 years, 5 months ago
S5E17 Classification and Regression Trees with Yi Feng
Season 5 Episode 17
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick are honored to visit with Yi Feng, a quantitative methodologist at UCLA, as she helps them understand classif…
2 years, 6 months ago
S5E16 Simpson's Paradox
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about Simpson’s Paradox: what it is, examples of where it occurs in real life, and why we might not real…
2 years, 6 months ago
S5E15 Classical Test Theory (in bed)
Season 5 Episode 15
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick take a walk down memory lane to rediscover classical test theory, although they revisit this through the len…
2 years, 6 months ago
S5E14 Regression to the Mean
Season 5 Episode 14
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg launch a new occasional series called Stuff You Should Know. The topic for today is regression to the mean: w…
2 years, 7 months ago
S5E13 The Confidence Interval's Tale
Season 5 Episode 13
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about confidence intervals: symmetric and asymmetric, asymptotic and bootstrapped, how to interpret them…
2 years, 7 months ago
S5E12 Meta-Analysis With Paschal Sheeran
Season 5 Episode 12
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg have great fun talking about meta-analysis with Paschal Sheeran, a social psychologist from the University of…
2 years, 7 months ago