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CALDAR SPEAKER SERIES AT UCLA
(2011)
April
April 19, 2011
Yu-Ching Lan, Ph.D.
UCLA School of Public Health
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
| geneticEpi-yclan2slides |
Applications of Molecular Epidemiology |
February
February 1, 2011
Samuel R. Friedman, Ph.D.
Institute for AIDS Research National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.
Interdisciplinary Theoretical Synthesis Core in the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
| Social Networks and Group Sex among Drug Users and Others: Mixing Patterns and the Limitations of Current HIV and Drug Use Interventions |
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The following are video files of Dr. Friedman's presentation:
(Note: Because of the file size, the video of Dr. Friedman's talk has been divided into five parts):
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(2010)
January
January 29, 2010
Susan A. Murphy, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, Institute of Social Research
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
| Developing Evidence-Based Adaptive Treatment Strategies |
S.A. Murphy and D. Almirall (2008). Dynamic Treatment Regimes, in Kattan MW, ed. Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
S.A. Murphy, K.G. Lynch, J.R. McKay, D. Oslin, T. TenHave (2007). Developing Adaptive Treatment Strategies in Substance Abuse Research. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 88(2):S24-S30.
S.A. Murphy, D. Oslin, A.J.Rush, J. Zhu for MCATS (2007). Methodological Challenges in Constructing Effective Treatment Sequences for Chronic Disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology, 32(2):257-62. |
The following are MP4 videos of Dr. Murphy's presentation:
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(2009)
October
October 16, 2009
John McArdle, Ph.D.
University of Southern California, Psychology Department
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
| Issues in Longitudinal Structural Modeling of Life-Span Data (Handout) |
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The following are MP4 videos of Dr. McArdle's presentation:
Please note: The MP4 files are provided for your convenience. We do not offer any technical support for their use. |
June
June 18, 2009
Robert Weiss, Ph.D.
UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
| A Bayesian Multivariate Longitudinal Model for Number of Sex Partners and HIV Status Disclosure |
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(2008)
November
November 5, 2008
Li-Jung Liang, Ph.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
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September
September 19, 2008
Libo Li, Ph.D.
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
| Determining the Number of Classes in Growth Mixture Modeling: Covariate Data Generations Scheme and Class Specificity |
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March
March 21,2008
Bridget Freisthler, Ph.D.
UCLA Department of Social Welfare, School of Public Affairs
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
| Social Mechanisms of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: The Role of Alcohol Use and the Alcohol Environment |
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(2007)
November
November 2, 2007
Neal Halfon, M.D., M.P.H.
UCLA Departments of Pediatrics, Health Sciences, and Policy Studies
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| Slide Presentations (PDF) |
Recommended Readings |
| Life Course Health Development to Promote Health System Change |
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(2006)
June
June
28, 2006
Donald Hedeker, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago
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| Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) |
Recommended Readings |
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Hedeker, D. (2004). An introduction to growth modeling. In
D. Kaplan (Ed.), Quantitative Methodology for the Social
Sciences. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications. |
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Hedeker, D., & Gibbons, R.D. (1997). Application
of random-effects pattern-mixture models for missing data in
longitudinal studies. Psychological Methods, 2, 64-78. |
May
May 1,
2006
Stephanie Lanza, Ph.D.
The Methodology Center, Pennsylvania State University
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| Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) |
Recommended Readings |
| Latent
Transition Analysis |
Introductory and Applied Material: |
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Introduction to LCA and LTA: Lanza, S. T., Flaherty, B. P., & Collins,
L. M. (2003). Latent class and latent transition analysis. In
J. A. Schinka, & W. F. Velicer (Eds.), Handbook of
Psychology: Vol. 2. Research Methods in Psychology (pp.
663-685). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. |
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Application
of LTA to longitudinal data on substance use: Lanza, S.
T., & Collins, L. M. (2002). Pubertal
timing and the stages of substance use in females during
early adolescence. Prevention Science, 3,
69-82. |
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Guo,
J., Collins, L. M., Hill, K. G., & Hawkins, J.
D. (2000). Developmental pathways to alcohol abuse and dependence
in young adulthood. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61,
799-808. |
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Advanced or Special Topic Material |
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LCA with covariates:
Chung, H.,
Flaherty, B. P., & Schafer, J. L. (2006).
Latent-class logistic regression: Application to marijuana
use and attitudes among high-school seniors. Journal of
the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
169(4), 723-743. |
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LCA for repeated measures:
Lanza, S.T., & Collins, L.M. (2006). A mixture model of
discontinuous development in heavy drinking from ages 18 to
30: The role of college enrollment. Journal of Studies
on Alcohol, 67(4), 552-61. |
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Data augmentation to get standard errors:
Lanza, S. T., Collins, L. M., Schafer, J. L., & Flaherty,
B. P. (2005). Using Data Augmentation to Obtain Standard
Errors and Conduct Hypothesis Tests in Latent Class and Latent
Transition Analysis. Psychological Methods, 10,
84-100. |
March
March
14, 2006
David Huang, Dr. P.H., M.P.H.
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
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| Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) |
Recommended Readings |
| Growth
Mixture Modeling of Longitudinal Data |
Muthén, B. (2004). Latent variable analysis: for
longitudinal data. In D. Kaplan (ed.), Handbook of Quantitative
Methodology for the Social Sciences (pp. 345-368). Newbury
Park, CA: Sage Publications |
March
14, 2006
Chih-Ping Chou, Ph.D.
University of Southern California, Institute for Prevention
Research
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| Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) |
Recommended Readings |
| Application
of Structural Equation Models in Longitudinal Studies |
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February
February
23, 2006
Daniel Nagin, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University
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| Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) |
Recommended Readings |
| Group-based Trajectory Modeling |
Haviland, A. M., & Nagin, D. S. (2005). Causal inferences
with group-based trajectory models. Psychometrika, 70,
1-22. |
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Nagin, D. S. (2006). Group-Based Modeling of Development. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press. |
(2005)
October
October
22, 2005
Yih-Ing Hser, Ph.D.
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
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| Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) |
Recommended Readings (PDF) |
| Center
for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research (CALDAR) |
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