Lab Meetings

Location

229 Social Sciences Building (map) and B140 Erwin Mill Buidling (map)

Time

Fridays 10:00-11:30 am

Information

Lab meetings are scheduled for a 90-min block each Friday beginning at 10:00. Attendance is mandatory. The purpose of lab meetings is fourfold:

1. to provide opportunities for deeper exploration of material covered in regular class meetings;
2. to provide training in the use of Mplus for structural equation modeling analyses;
3. to prepare for examinations through discussion of homework assignments
4. for administration of exams.

Lab meetings will be convened by the lab instructor.

Schedule

August 31: exploratory factor analysis

September 7: introduction to Mplus and data preparation

September 14: quiz

September 21: confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and complex measurement models

September 28: Exam 1

October 5: multiple group CFA and invariance testing

October 12: power and sample size calculation with Monte Carlo simulation

October 19: Exam 2

October 26: full structural equation models; mediation and moderation

November 2: latent growth models

November 9: latent growth models (continued)

November 16: multiple imputation and using multiply-imputed data for SEM

November 30: additional topics