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Colorado Convention Center = “CC”, Hyatt = “HY”

312 Applied Session Tue, 8/5/08, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-711
Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences - Contributed - Papers
Social Statistics Section, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Section on Government Statistics
Chair(s): Kristin P. Lennox, Texas A&M University
    2:05 PM   Hierarchical Nonlinear Profile Analysis of Dichotomous Item Responses — Steven A. Culpepper, Metropolitan State College of Denver
    2:20 PM   Determining the Number of Classes in Growth Mixture Modeling: Covariate, Data Generation Scheme, and Class Specificity — Libo Li, University of California, Los Angeles; Yih-ing Hser, University of California, Los Angeles
    2:25 PM   Applying Bayesian Networks to the Examination of Student Retention and Graduation — Xiaohong Li, Sam Houston State University; Melinda M. Holt, Sam Houston State University
    2:50 PM   Predicting Electoral Vote Totals for the Presidential Election — Christopher J. Rigdon, Arizona State University; Steven Rigdon, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Edward Sewell, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Sheldon Jacobsen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    3:05 PM   Election Prediction Using the Kalman Filter — Steven Rigdon, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Michael Siekerka, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Christopher J. Rigdon, Arizona State University
    3:20 PM   Spatial Empirical Bayes: Borrowing Strength Through Spatial Dependence — Natalya Verbitsky, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; Stephen W. Raudenbush, The University of Chicago
     3:35 PM   Floor Discussion
 

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