Ryan Bowles

Applied quantitative psychologist. To early literacy researchers, I'm a statistician. To statisticians, I'm an early literacy researcher. He/him. Is/eum.

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

Congratulations to (now) Dr. Tiantian Sun (@TiantianSun_MSU) on successfully defending her dissertation today looking at the measurement of language and communication for kids who use AAC. Thanks to committee @LoriSkibbe, Sarah Douglas, and Josh Plavnick.

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"The best solution is to correctly specify the model." Great sarcastic quote from Tim Konold.

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@schotz A key point of the talk is that death is unidentified.

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Watching a talk with live closed captioning. DIF keeps being interpreted as death.

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Coding constraints on Mplus thresholds with 100+ variables with different numbers of categories. One minor mistake on first run. Ran successfully second time.

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Excellent example of a monotonic increasing function: university indirect cost rates.

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Reminder about this talk that is open to everyone.

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

The next MSU HDFS Methods talk is Tuesday, 4/25, at 11 am Eastern time by zoom. Tim Hayes from Florida International will talk on "R-squared Change in Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables and Missing Data". All are welcome. Message me for talk info.

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

My program is starting a new joint undergrad/masters program in early childhood education. Students in the program can complete their undergraduate and masters degrees in 5 - 5.5 years.
https://t.co/PNZgGFphyA

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

Excited to serve on this dissertation committee. Good luck, Kyla!

[MSU HDFS @MSUHDFS]

Good luck to Kyla Cary who defends her dissertation on Wednesday, April 19- "Women’s online experiences of sexual objectification: Measurement development and associations with body image and mental health."

You got this!

#MSUHDFS
#MSUSocialScience

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

The next MSU HDFS Methods talk is Tuesday, 4/25, at 11 am Eastern time by zoom. Tim Hayes from Florida International will talk on "R-squared Change in Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables and Missing Data". All are welcome. Message me for talk info.

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

@wesbonifay For the most common mispronounciation of my name, I should collaborate with this guy. https://t.co/LV8c3XO9IQ

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

I am looking for someone with the last name of Cereal to collaborate with.

[ASA History of Statistics Special Interest Group @HOS_ASA]

#OTD 1964 George Box & David R Cox read their paper “An Analysis of Transformations” at a research methods meeting of the @RoyalStatSoc. The paper began with their names then found the topic. 1/5🧵

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@jmarcgoodrich Was the reviewer right?

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

Welcome to the department!

[MSU HDFS @MSUHDFS]

Congratulations to Dr. Chi-Fang Tseng will be joining the HDFS tenure system faculty as a member of the Couple and Family Therapy Program, and to Dr. Ahnalee Brincks who will be transitioning from the fixed-term system into the tenure system!

#MSUHDFS #MSUSocialScience

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

Just realized I put the wrong date. It's on Tuesday, 4/11.

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

The next MSU HDFS Methods talk is on Tu, 4/10, at 11am Eastern time over zoom. Kevin Grimm from Arizona State University will be talking about "Growth models of survival processes". All are welcome. Message me for details and/or to get on our email list.

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@ClintinS @Cghlewis Dear past me, would it have killed you to add more comments?

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@FredOswald Oooh, didn't know that was coming. Perfect timing!

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I am teaching applied SEM in the fall for the first time in many years. In the past, I used and loved Kline's textbook as the right balance of pragmatic and technical. It's getting a bit dated (2016). Anybody have a recommendation?

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Reminder about this talk. Open to anyone who wants to join.

[Ryan Bowles @RyanPBowles]

MSU HDFS Methods is hosting a talk by @schotz on T 3/28 at 11 EST over zoom. The title is "Using the bivariate normal distribution to assess and develop screening instruments." All are welcome to attend. Message for connection information and to get on our email list.