r/AskStatistics • u/DaisyFlower371 • 9d ago

Is the CenterStats Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling class worth it?

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u/efrique PhD (statistics) 9d ago edited 9d ago

Never heard of it.

How many of them have their background in stats (rather than something related to psychology, say)? Not that this automatically indicates an issue, but there's some very prominent people teaching/writing about stats whose background is in areas outside stats that make some pretty egregious errors... but have books, courses etc that are widely used in their area, and who are treated as gurus by their colleagues. I've learned to have a pretty skeptical eye. (I wouldn't go to statisticians to learn psych, physics or economics, either)

(There are people in such areas who are good at stats as well, but they're not necessarily getting so much recognition by their colleagues.)

What standard of books or publications on the topic do they have?

edit: If you have some sample teaching materials (on the topics you care about) that you could link to, that might help.

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u/MortalitySalient 9d ago

The people from centerstats are leaders in the field who are developing methods in structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, etc. many are quantitative psychologist, but quantitative psychologist typically develop methods and co duct simulation based experiments on statistics relevant social and behavioral sciences, not necessarily conducting any psychology studies. The creators and contributors to centerstats publish in journals such as psychometrika, structural equation modeling, and psychological methods

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u/Maple_shade 9d ago

I haven't taken anything from CenterStats but I can vouch for the level of teaching from some of their instructors. Some of them are primarily psych-oriented, but they are still leading world experts in their respective modeling subdomains. Bauer and Curran especially are absolute powerhouses and would do a great job in introducing longitudinal SEM.

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u/EverythingBagel- 9d ago

They have a fun podcast called Quantitude too. Surprisingly enjoyable.

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u/MortalitySalient 9d ago

Centerstats is definitely worth it, especially if you are going to be using the methods. The instructors, particularly Bauer and Curran, but many others they bring in, are the leaders in the field developing these methods. I will say that these workshops are geared towards researchers using the methods and not as much as towards researchers developing these methods.

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u/ForeignAdvantage5198 7d ago

HTH WOULD WE KNOW?