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Leiden University

  1. Hickendorff, Marian: Mathematical proficiency in primary education: Cognitive processes and predictability.
  2. Polak, Marike: Item analysis of unipolar item response data.
  3. Rippe, Ralph: Nonlinear modeling with high volume data sets from systems biology.

University of Amsterdam

  1. Bakker, Marjan: Expectancy effects on the analysis of behavioral research data.
  2. Cramer, Angélique: Causal networks for psychological measurement.
  3. Jak, Suzanne: Bias in the measurement of child attributes in educational research: Measurement bias in multilevel data.
  4. Kan, Kees-Jan: Testing the mutualism model of general intelligence.
  5. Kievit, Rogier: Statistical models for reductive theories.
  6. King Kallimanis, Bellinda: Unbiased measurement of health-related quality-of-life.
  7. Molenaar, Dylan: Statistical modeling of (cognitive) ability differentiation.
  8. Ravenzwaaij, Don van: Modeling the relation between speed and accuracy.
  9. Straatemeier, Marthe: A complexity appraoch to cognitive learning in young children: Fundamental and applied aspects Project financed by NWO.
  10. Weeda, Wouter: EEG/MEG components: A new statistical approach to analyze their (co)variance properties.
  11. Wetzels, Ruud: Bayesian hypothesis testing hierarchical models: A PhD proposal for the innovation of psychological methods.
  12. Zand Scholten, Annemarie: Admissable statistics and latent variable theory.

University of Groningen

  1. Holt, Janke ten: A comparison between factor analysis and item response theory modeling in scale construction.
  2. Tendeiro, Jorge: Uniqueness, rank, and simplicity of three-way arrays with symmetric slices.

Free University

  1. Glasner, Tina: Reconstructing event histories in standardized survey research: Cognitive mechanisms and aided recall techniques.

Twente University

  1. Avetisyan, Marianna: A Bayesian approach for handling response bias and incomplete data.
  2. Geerlings, Hanneke: Linear logistic test models for rule-based item generation.
  3. Jehangir, Khurrem: The use of item response theory for scaling in educational surveys.
  4. Verhagen, Josine: Bayesian modeling of heterogeneity for large scale comparative research.

Tilburg University

  1. Conijn, Judith: Person-misfit in item response models explained by means of nonparametric and multilevel logistic regression models.
  2. Kieruj, Natalia: Question format and response style behaviour in attitude research.
  3. Kruyen, Peter: Minimal requirements of the reliability of tests and questionnaire.
  4. Morren, Meike: Bias and equivalence in cross-cultural survey research: An analysis of instrument comparability in the SPVA survey.
  5. Oberski, Daniel: Prediction of the quality of survey questions in cross cultural research.
  6. Straat, Hendrik: Higher measurement quality of tests and questionnaires by means of more powerful statistics.
  7. Zijlstra, Wobbe: Detection of out liers in test, questionnaire and survey data.

Utrecht University

  1. Hattum, Pascal van: Market segmentation using Bayesian model based clustering.
  2. Jozwiak, Kasia: Improving statistical power in studies on event occurrence by using an optimal design.
  3. Korendijk, Elly: Robustness issues for cluster randomised trials.
  4. Kuiper, Rebecca: Chained equations.
  5. Lugtig, Peter: Tailoring to the MAX: Using new IC technology to increase data quality and efficiency in panel surveys.
  6. Mulder, Joris: Inequality constrainted models for the multivariate normal mean: A Bayesian approach.
  7. Peeters, Carel: Inequality constrained Bayesian models for the multivariate normal covariance matrix.
  8. Tijmstra, Jesper: Constant latent odds-ratios models for the analysis of discrete psychological data.
  9. Wesel, Floryt van: Model selection.

Maastricht University

  1. Maus, Bärbel: Optimal designs for fMRI experiments.

K.U. Leuven

Statistics Netherlands (CBS)

  1. Giesen, Deirdre: Response burden and measurement error in business survey data collection.

Concluded projects

Concluded projects in 2010

  1. Ligtvoet, Rudy: Models and methods for invariant item ordering.
  2. Lukociene, Olga: Performance of latent class analysis based random coefficient models.
  3. Moerman, Gerben: Interview-strategies in open interviews.
  4. Schoot, Rens van de: Learning more from emperical data using prior knowledge.

Concluded projects in 2009

  1. Cobben, Fannie: Adjustment for nonresponse bias in household surveys.
  2. Depril, Dirk: Additive clustering for two-mode data.
  3. Feskens, Remco: Identification of non-response in groups that are difficult to study and the development of tailor-made non-response reduction strategies.
  4. Hoekstra, Rink: Multiple classification latent class models.
  5. Khalid, Naveed: Searching for fit to IRT models in complex data.
  6. Klein Entink, Rinke: Simultaneous modeling of response times and responses on test items.
  7. Oravecz, Zita: Modeling core affect trajectories with diffusion models.
  8. Ortega Azurdy, Shirley: Powerful and robust designs for longitudinal multilevel studies .
  9. Schmittmann, Verena: Analysis of qualitatively different learning forms by testing multi-modality and other catastrofe flags.
  10. Vandekerckhove, Joachim: The development and application of diffusion models.
  11. Weekers, Anke: The use of item response theory in personality assessment.

Concluded projects in 2008

  1. Braeken, Johan: Modeling residual dependencies in item response models.
  2. Cruyff, Maarten: Measurement and prediction in culturally heterogeneous population.
  3. Maij-De Meij, Annette: Measurement and prediction in culturally heterogeneous population.
  4. Ploeger, Annemie: Developmental psychology and evolutionay theory.
  5. Schepers, Jan: Real-valued HICLAS models.
  6. Van Rijn, Peter: Ergodicity: the relationship between intra- and interindividual variation.
  7. Warrens, Matthijs: Ordering properties of homogeneity analysis, when applied to data from IRT models.
  8. Zijlstra, Bonne: Models for the analysis of social networks with multiple sources of variation.

Concluded projects in 2007

  1. Balázs, Katalin: Detecting heterogeneity in logistic regression models.
  2. Carabain, Christine: Survey research on ethnic attitudes: A comparison between open and closed.
  3. Ginkel, Joost van: Handling missing scores and outliers in test and questionnaire data.
  4. González, Jorge: Random effect approaches of individual differences in complex models for categorical data.
  5. Hidegkuti, István: Categories and dimensions.
  6. Linting, Mariëlle: Nonparametric inference in multivariate categorical data analysis.
  7. Stuive, Ilse: The multiple group method of confirmatory factor analysis for test construction.
  8. van der Kooij, Anita: Constrained regression models.
  9. Wicherts, Jelte: Application and development of multi-group means and covariance structure modeling of the Flynn effect.

Concluded projects in 2006

  1. Frank, Laurence: Stability of feature network modeling of proximity da.
  2. Hol, Michiel: Efficiency and administration invariance of computer adaptive computerized and paper-and-pencil testing using Likert item questionnaires.
  3. Laudy, Olav: Translation of theories into statistical models using inequality constrained loglinear/ latent class models.