Veronica Cole

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

Major aMNLFA bug fix! TL;DR: If you ran the old version (i.e., anytime before July 2021) without inspecting the Mplus inputs and outputs and altering them accordingly, you should rerun them using the new version now, and check your inputs and outputs! https://t.co/8YJABAj0w9

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

So excited to have @BalkayaInce as a colleague!!!

[Cambridge UP - Psychology & Psychiatry @CambUP_Psych]

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Algorithms for Measurement Invariance Testing by @VeronicaTCole and Conor H. Lacey Free access available until 19 December.
https://t.co/ssS4Vc4UH7
#cambridgeelements #psychology

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

Free measurement invariance advice alert! @ConorHLacey and I just published a Cambridge Element on algorithms for testing measurement invariance. We tried to make it pretty comprehensive, and it’s available for free until 12/19! Check it out here: https://t.co/2xULuddxvw

[Shannon Brady, PhD @shannontbrady]

Congratulations, graduates!
With joy and admiration,
The Psychology Dept
#wfugrad

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

@LydiaBierce Where does the time go!?!? Having you as a mentee has been a privilege - I’m so proud of you

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

Super proud of this systematic review and meta-analysis that just came out in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors that just came out in collaboration with @LRakerd, @LydiaBierce, and others https://t.co/3eRkYtgPpl

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

@EJayawickreme @WakeForestNews Thank you!!!

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

I'm not sure I've ever learned more from writing a paper -- both about the literature and about the process of getting our heads around the literature. It was the longest time I've ever spent writing a paper (1.5 years!!) and I'm really proud of what our team produced!

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

By contrast, the relationship between substance use and things like peer-reported friendship nominations or peer-reported likeability are weak or null, in the aggregate.

[Dan McNeish @dmcneish18]

New simulation paper comparing performance of 2 newer SEM fit index methods (dynamic fit cutoffs, equivalence testing ) to traditional cutoffs (RMSEA < .06, CFI > .95).

Both methods were improvements, but dynamic fit were most consistent across models

https://t.co/2mRAssjXyO

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

Footnotes:

* OK, it may have come out 2 months ago. I don't know why I waited so long to share it, but I'm excited to hear your feedback!

** The average correlation among factor scores was ~.9 - so, not "close enough" for all applications (e.g., educational testing).

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

New-ish paper! I'm really excited about this multiverse analysis of integrative data analysis (IDA) we (including @NishaGottfredso, Andrea Hussong, Dan Bauer, and Patrick Curran) just* published in Prevention Science https://t.co/hWKMm00Zii 1/n

[Veronica Cole @VeronicaTCole]

Getting the DIF model "right" may be less important than assessing the robustness of your focal findings (usually pertaining to the relationship between the factor scores and some other variable) to decisions made during the scoring process! /end