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Activity Number:
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469
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #303373 |
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Title:
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Multivariate, Multilevel Modeling of Behavioral Interaction Data
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Author(s):
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Getachew A. Dagne*+
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Companies:
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University of South Florida
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Address:
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13201 Bruce B. Downs, Blvd., MDC 56, Tampa, FL, 33612,
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Keywords:
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Multilevel models ; Poisson model ; Latent factors ; Social interaction
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Abstract:
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Preventive intervention programs often target patterns of family interaction as a means of effecting change. This presentation discusses new methods for specifying and modeling theoretically meaningful patterns of social interactions based on indicators of the strength of contingency among behaviors in a behavioral sequence experienced by couples. Our prior work has focused on using univariate multilevel modeling methods to characterize contingency strength between any two individual behavior categories, and has extended this work to model patterns of contingency based on all instances of a single transition during an interaction, such as the transition from a wife's action to a husband's reaction. This paper presents the multivariate extension of the univariate model, which is necessary when modeling interaction patterns involving transitions to and from both actors.
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