The Methodology Center Brown Bag Series
Spring 2007 Schedule
All seminars are held on Thursdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the large conference room
of the Methodology Center at 204 E. Calder Way, Suite 400 (unless otherwise noted).
Date
Speaker
Title
1/18
NO SEMINAR
Center Business Meeting
1/25
Antonio Morgan-Lopez
Substance Abuse Epidemiology,
Prevention, and Risk (SAEPR)
Program, RTI International
Modeling Longitudinal Turnover in
Substance Abuse Treatment Groups
with Rolling Admissions: A Latent
Class Pattern Mixture Approach
2/1
Daniel Nagin
Heinz School of Public Policy,
Department of Statistics, Carnegie
Mellon University
Unpacking the Relationship Between
Adolescent Employment and
Antisocial Behavior: A Matched
Samples Comparison
2/8
NO SEMINAR
Center Business Meeting
2/15
Gia Barboza
Department of Statistics,
Penn State
TBA
2/22
Diane McLaughlin and
Tasha Snyder
Department of Agricultural
Economics and Rural Sociology,
Penn State
Coming of Age Across America:
Local Conditions, Substance Use and
Risky Sexual Behavior of
Adolescents
3/1
NO SEMINAR
Travel
3/8
NO SEMINAR
Center Business Meeting
3/15
NO SEMINAR
Spring Break
3/22
Dennis Scanlon
Department of Agricultural
and Extension Education,
Penn State
The Effect of a Tiered Benefit and
Safety Incentive on Hospital
Admissions: Evidence from Stated
and Revealed Preference Data
3/29
Linda Collins
Department of HDFS,
Methodology Center,
Penn State
Group Randomized Experiments
Using Fractional Factorial Designs
4/5
NO SEMINAR
Center Business Meeting
4/12
Linda Collins
Department of HDFS,
Methodology Center,
Penn State
The Multiphase Optimization
Strategy (MOST) – Joint Seminar
with the Prevention Research Center
4/19
Michael Neale
Departments of Psychiatry,
Human Genetics, and
Psychology, Virginia
Commonwealth University
TBA
4/26
Aleksandra Slavkovic
Department of Statistics,
Penn State
TBA
5/3
NO SEMINAR
Center Business Meeting
5/10
Assorted Speakers
Society for Prevention Research
Annual Conference Practice Talks