October 3, 2012

Penn State faculty: do you want to identify new methodological approaches to help you in your work but have a busy schedule? Try A Taste of Methodology, a series of semiannual BRIEF workshops for faculty, with lunch included. The objective is to provide busy faculty with an efficient way to assess a methodological approach's potential for their research.

This semester's workshop is "Latent Class Analysis (LCA) for Uncovering Hidden Subgroups Within a Population," presented by Methodology Center Scientific Director Stephanie Lanza. The workshop will be on Wednesday, December 19, from 10:30 am-1:30 pm at the Bennett Pierce Living Center, 110 Henderson building. The workshop is FREE and open to all PhD-level scientists at Penn State.

The three-hour workshop will include:

• A conceptual introduction to LCA
• An empirical example:  Analyzing adolescent health behaviors using SAS
• Including grouping variables such as treatment, condition, or gender
• Expanding the model to include predictors and distal outcomes
• Open discussion of how LCA might be applied in the research of workshop attendees
• Resources to enable you or your trainees to learn more

Spaces are limited and tend to fill quickly. A Taste of Methodology is co-sponsored by the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) and The Methodology Center, and is part of SSRI's Innovative Methods Initiative.

Registration is required; to register, email Tammy Knepp.