Hands-On Workshop: Advanced Longitudinal Modeling With Latent Variables

Presentation will be in English: The objective of this short workshop course is to expose participants to modeling group and individual-level trajectories using a latent variable framework. Specific to this course will be the discussion of flexibility in modeling experience over time and in context. Issues of individual versus shared patterns of “growth” will be discussed, along with strategies to model timing. Contextual or “multilevel” models will also be discussed in terms of capturing individual experiences over time and in place. All models will be discussed in terms of theory, model fit tests and appropriateness for research questions in the social sciences. All examples and exercises will use the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) data set and Mplus software. The workshop is limited to 15 participants who will be selected on the basis of the course’s relevance to their research or teaching. You can register on-line at the following address: http://www.ciqss.umontreal.ca. The application deadline for the workshop is June 6, 2008. The selected participants will receive a confirmation by e-mail on June 9, 2008. Please find the Course Syllabus at this address: http://www.ciqss.umontreal.ca/en/whatsNew.html. Registration fees are $40 for students and postdoctoral fellows, $80 for professors and researchers affiliated with QICSS, $150 for other university professors and researchers and $250 for individuals from any other category. Registration fees must be paid by money order or cheque made out to: QICSS – Université de Montréal, by credit or debit card at our office in Montreal (3535 Queen-Mary Road, Suite 420).