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CALDAR SPEAKER SERIES AT UCLA


(2011)

April

April 19, 2011

Yu-Ching Lan, Ph.D.
UCLA School of Public Health

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

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

 

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):

(2010)

January

January 29, 2010

Susan A. Murphy, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, Institute of Social Research

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:

(2009)

October

October 16, 2009

John McArdle, Ph.D.
University of Southern California, Psychology Department

Slide Presentations (PDF) Recommended Readings
Issues in Longitudinal Structural Modeling of Life-Span Data (Handout)  

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

Slide Presentations (PDF) Recommended Readings
A Bayesian Multivariate Longitudinal Model for Number of Sex Partners and HIV Status Disclosure  

(2008)

November

November 5, 2008

Li-Jung Liang, Ph.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Slide Presentations (PDF) Recommended Readings
   


September

September 19, 2008

Libo Li, Ph.D.
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs

Slide Presentations (PDF) Recommended Readings
Determining the Number of Classes in Growth Mixture Modeling: Covariate Data Generations Scheme and Class Specificity  


March

March 21,2008

Bridget Freisthler, Ph.D.
UCLA Department of Social Welfare, School of Public Affairs

Slide Presentations (PDF) Recommended Readings
Social Mechanisms of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: The Role of Alcohol Use and the Alcohol Environment  

(2007)

November

November 2, 2007

Neal Halfon, M.D., M.P.H.
UCLA Departments of Pediatrics, Health Sciences, and Policy Studies

Slide Presentations (PDF) Recommended Readings
Life Course Health Development to Promote Health System Change  

 

(2006)

June

June 28, 2006

Donald Hedeker, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago

Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) Recommended Readings
  Hedeker, D. (2004). An introduction to growth modeling.  In D. Kaplan (Ed.), Quantitative Methodology for the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications.
  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

Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) Recommended Readings
Latent Transition Analysis Introductory and Applied Material:
  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.
 

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.

 

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.

  Advanced or Special Topic Material
 

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.

 

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.

 

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

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

Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) Recommended Readings
Application of Structural Equation Models in Longitudinal Studies


February

February 23, 2006

Daniel Nagin, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University

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.

  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

Slide Presentations (PowerPoint) Recommended Readings (PDF)
Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research (CALDAR)



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