» A bag of tweets / Jan 2012 • 21 days ago • misc

Here is the latest bag of tweets^*, which covers January 2012.

» A bag of tweets / Dec 2011 • 54 days ago • misc

Here is the latest bag of tweets^*, which covers December 2011.

» Formative vs. reflective measurement • 68 days ago • psychometrics lectures

Lastly, I attended a talk by Hervé Guyon about PLS path modeling and the debate about formative vs. reflective measurement.

» Contemporary or modern psychometrics • 68 days ago • psychometrics

That is certainly a minor issue of terminology, but what is best to say: contemporary or modern psychometrics?

» Random notes • 69 days ago • psychometrics

Some (old) random notes found by chance on my iPhone.

» Fitting genetic models for twin studies • 69 days ago • biometrics

In their 2008 paper entitled "Biometrical modeling of twin and family data using standard mixed model software",⁽¹⁾ Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and coll. described a mixed-effects model approach to fitting ACE structural equation models to twin data using Stata GLLAMM. This was also discussed in a recent Stata meeting.

» Kiefer's Introduction to statistical inference • 75 days ago • statistics lectures

I just received my copy of Introduction to statistical inference, by Jack C. Kiefer (Springer, 1987).^(a) After having read the first two chapters I wonder: How come I didn't start with that book when I was studying elementary statistics!

» A bag of tweets / Nov 2011 • 83 days ago • misc

Here is the latest bag of tweets^*, which covers November 2011.

» Playing with DocBook again • 96 days ago • apple misc

Some notes about installing DocBook tools on OS X Lion.

» A bag of tweets / Oct 2011 • 116 days ago • misc

Here is the latest bag of tweets^*, which covers October 2011.