Which is also the 27th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences (SMABS).
The conference will be hosted by the Institute for Educational Progress (Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen) (IQB), Humboldt University Berlin. The venue for the conference from July 21st to July 23rd will be the Congress Hotel Potsdam. The conference language is English.
Program highlights:
- Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA: "Statistical Inference for Causal Effects".
- Edgar Erdfelder, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Individual Differences, University of Mannheim, Germany: "Multinomial processing tree models".
- Henry Braun, Boisi Chair in Education and Public Policy in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, USA: "Value-added Modelling".
- Paul de Boeck, Professor of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, The Netherlands: "Distinguishing Categories and Dimensions".
- W.J. van der Linden, Professor of Measurement and Data Analysis, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Twente, The Netherlands. & Chief Research Scientist, CTB/McGraw-Hill, Monterey, CA, USA: "Issues in IRT".
Invited Symposia
- Determinants of item difficulty and latent dimensionality (organised by IQB, Germany)
- Power, sample size, and optimal designs in social research (organised by Mirjam Moerbeek, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Dr. Gerard J.P. van Breukelen, Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
- Multilevel modelling (organised by Cora Maas and Joop Hox, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
The link below guides you to the website. There you find more information about the conference and how to participate in its scientific activities.
Michel Knigge
(Organizational Committee)
http://www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/veranst/EAM-SMABS
