Recipients of the Outanding Quantitative Dissertation Award |
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2011
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Zhushan Li of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign was the recipient of the Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award for her dissertation, Loglinear Models as Item Response Models. |
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2010
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Amery Wu was the recipient of the Quantitative Dissertation award for her dissertation, Pratt’s Importance Measures in Factor Analysis: A New Technique for Interpreting Oblique Factor Models. Her dissertation was supervised by Dr. Bruno Zumbo, Professor of Measurement and Statistics at the University of British Columbia. |
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2009
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Li Cai was the recipient of the Quantitative Dissertation award for his dissertation, Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Nonlinear Latent Structure Analysis with a Comprehensive Measurement Model. His dissertation was supervised by Dr. David Thissen, Professor, and Dr. Robert MacCallum, Professor, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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2008
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Hsiu-Ting Yu, a graduate of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recived the 2008 Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award for her dissertation "Multilevel Latent Markov Models for Nested Longitudinal Discrete Data." |
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2007
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Andrew Ho of the University of Iowa, for his dissertation "Comparing Score Trends on High-Stakes and Low-Stakes Tests Using Metric-Free Statistics and Multidimensional Item Response Models." |
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2006
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Jianbin Fu, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison,. recived the 2006 Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Polytomous Extension of the Fusion Model and Its Bayesian Parameter Estimation.” |
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2005
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Guanglei Hong won the award for the Quantitative dissertation. Her dissertation was titled, "Causal inference for multi-level observational data with applications to kindergarten retention." |