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Psychology 5993: Twin and Family Research
Date
Topic
Readings
January 25

1. Organizational Meeting

2. Matt McGue: Course orientation for undergraduates

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February 1

1. Diana Samek :

The MTFS Life Events Project

2. Meg Keyes

Odds Ratio vs. Risk Ratio: Which Is It?


February 8

NO MEETING

February 15

1. Steve Malone :

Weighting Procedures For the ES Sample

 

2. Heny Yoon :

TBD


 

 

 

February 22

1. Yvette Perry :

Cultural Socialization in the SIBS Sample

 

2. Wendy Johnson :

Biometric Assumptions: Should You Be Worried?


 

 

 

2. Purcell (2002)

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February 29

 

1. Bob Krueger & Jaime Derringer:

Alternative Metrics for Assessing Model Fit

 

2. Greg Perlman:

Should we be using Type II or Type III Sums of Squares?

March 7

1. Brian Hicks :

Genotype x Environment Interaction Effects on Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology

 

2. Jake Buchanan :

Regression Approaches with Symptom Count Data


 

 

 

2. Atkins & Gallop (2007) .

March 14

1. Lisa Legrand

Outcomes in Twins Discortdant for Early Pregnancy

 

2. Casey Gilmore

Stability of time-frequency components underlying the P3 ERP From Age 17 to Age 29

 

March 14

Undergrads: Paper Topic Due

March 21

 

Spring Break

 

Macrh 28

1. Steven Ludeke :

A Longitudinal Twin Study of the Parent-Offspring Relationship

 

2. Rob Kirkpatrick :

CHRM2 Polymorphisms and Cognitive Functioning

 

 

 

Apirl 4

1. Martha Rueter :

Family interactions in adoptive compared to biological families: Theoretical implications

 

2. Mark Kramer:

Development of a trait fear inventory using item response theory


 

 

 

 


 

April 4

 

Undergrads: Paper Outline Due

April 11

1. Ana Dirago :

Age of onset and persistence of Major Depressive Disorder and their effect on personality trajectories from late-adolescence to early-adulthood

 

2. Brian Hicks and Meg Keyes:

Report from the NIDA Genetics Workshop

 

 

 

April 18

1. Cornelia Iucha :

TBA

2. Susan South :

TBA

 

 

 

April 25

 

RESEARCH DAY:

PRESENTATIONS BY STUDENTS AND POST DOCS

SPECIAL GUEST: CAROL PRESCOTT

 

May 2

1. Dan Irons :

The MCTFR DNA Database

2. Bill Oetting :

TBA

May 9

1. Irene Elkins :

TBA

2. Mark Kramer :

TBA

UNDERGRADUATES

PAPER DUE LAST DAY OF CLASS

CLASS OVER

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER

 

ASSIGNED READINGS

Atkins, D. C., & Gallop, R. J. (2007). Rethinking how family researchers model infrequent outcomes: A tutorial on count regression and zero-inflated models. Journal of Family Psychology, 21(4), 726-735.

Hu, L. T., & Bentler, P. M. (1999). Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling, 6(1), 1-55.

Langsrud, Y. (2003). ANOVA for unbalanced data: Use Type II instead of Type III sums of squares. Statistics and Computing, 13(2), 163-167.

Purcell, S. (2002). Variance components models for gene-environment interaction in twin analysis. Twin Research, 6, 554-571.

Shaw, R. G., & Mitchell-Olds, T. (1993). Anova for Unbalanced Data - an Overview. Ecology, 74(6), 1638-1645.

Sistrom, C. L., & Garvan, C. W. (2004). Proportions, odds, and risk. Radiology, 230(1), 12-19.