Welcome!
The joint quantitative brownbag (joint QBB) speaker series started out as an initiative between two graduate quantitative methods programs during the start of COVID-19 in Fall 2020. Currently, this initiative has grown to include about half a dozen quantitative methods graduate programs across North America. The longstanding purpose of the joint brownbag is to facilitate connection and discussion among students and faculty in graduate programs on topics of interest to a breadth of research topics in quantitative methodology. Quantitative methodologists develop theory, methods, and techniques focused on enhancing research in the social and behavioral sciences.
We meet monthly during the academic Fall and Spring semesters to feature experts in different fields from quantitative methods. Our meetings are over zoom and held on Mondays from 12:30-1:30pm ET.
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Fall 2025 upcoming talks
Mondays from 12:30-1:30pm ET
- 8 September 2025
Dr. Teague Henry
“How can constructs be real if our eyes aren’t real?”: A modest proposal for psychological construct theory - 6 October 2025 - Dr. Josh Gilbert
- 3 November 2025
- 24 November 2025
Announcements
Previous talks
Spring 2025
- 14 April 2025
Dr. Maarten Marsman
Bayesian Hypothesis Tests for the Robust Analysis of Networks - 24 March 2025
Dr. Kylie Anglin
Large Language Models and the Measurement of Psychological Constructs: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuning Approaches - 27 January 2025
Dr. Klaas Sijtsma
Pros and Cons of the Simple Sum Score on Tests and Questionnaires - 24 February 2025
Dr. John Jackson
Evaluating Effects of Interventions on Disparity in Health and Healthcare Decisions
Fall 2024
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9 September 2024
Dr. Victoria Stodden
AI-enabled Discovery: The Digital Scholarly Record -
7 October 2024
Dr. Susu Zhang
Informing Educational Measurement with Test-Taking Process Data -
4 November 2024 - Dr. Yi Feng
Ask What You Mean and Mean What You Ask: Strategic Reparameterization of Latent Growth Curve Models -
25 November 2024 - Dr. Feng Ji
Valid standard errors for Bayesian quantile regression with clustered and independent data