LECTURE NOTES:

Fri Sept 3:   Introduction

Mon Sept 6:  No school!
Wed Sept 8:  Dimensionality & Measuring Association
Frid Sept 10:   LAB 0:  introduction/refresher for STATA

Mon Sept 13:  Reliability I
Wed Sept 15:  Reliability II (see Sept 10 notes)
Fri Sept 17:  LAB 1

Mon Sept 20:  Reliability III
Wed Sept 22:  Validity
Fri Sept 24:   LAB 2

Mon Sept 27:  Factor Analysis I
Wed Sept 29:  Factor Analysis II;
Fri Oct 1:  LAB 3

Mon Oct 4:  Factor Analysis III:  Examples.  Slides1. Slides2.
Wed Oct 6:   Validity and Scale Development
Fri Oct 8:  LAB 4

Mon Oct 11:  Latent Class Analysis I
Wed Oct 13:  Latent Class Analysis II
Fri Oct 15:  LAB 5

Mon Oct 18:   Latent Class Analysis:  Literature review
Wed Oct 20:   Sample size issues in F.A. and L.C.A
Fri October 22:   LAB 6

Mon Oct 25: Review
Wed Oct 27:  Take-home final

PROBLEM SETS:

Problem Set #1            due 9/27           data (stata)    data (text)       codebook     answer key
Problem Set #2            due 10/18         data(stata)     data(mplus)    codebook     answer key
Problem Set #3            due 10/25         data (stata)    data(mplus)                        answer key

COMPUTING HANDOUTS FOR PROBLEM SETS:

Problem Set # 1
Problem Set # 2:   handout for stata7 handout for stata8   handout for M-plus
Problem Set # 3:  See handout for Mplus from Problems Set #2.
                          Example of syntax for two class model
                             Also see:  Mplus webpage:  http://www.statmodel.com/mplus/examples/mixture/mix1.html
                            (Lines in Mplus example are "commented out" by the '!' character.)
 

OTHER HANDOUTS

Matrix Operations