Short Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Masters degree in Mathematical Psychology, Nijmegen University, 1987
PhD at Nijmegen University, 1991, PhD thesis: Probabilistic feature models
for unfolding (promotor: Prof. Dr. E.E.Ch.I. Roskam)
Employment history: 1991-1992:
Researcher at the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and
Information, Nijmegen University
1992-1993: Assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical
Psychology, Nijmegen University
1993-1998: Assistant professor at the Department of Marketing and
Consumer Behavior, Wageningen University
1999-present: Assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and
Methodology, Maastricht University
Memberships:
International Society for Clinical Biostatistics
Dutch Society for Statistics and Operations Research, division for the social
sciences
Associated staff of the Interuniversitary research school for Psychometry and
Sociometry (IOPS)
Occasional reviewer of:
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society- series A
Psychometrika
Statistica Neerlandica
Appetite
Current activities:
Teaching:
Bachelor courses:
Analysis of an experiment: t-test, analysis of contingency tables, analysis of
variance, simple linear regression
Evaluation research: analysis of (co)variance, analysis of repeated measures,
sample size calculation
Master courses:
Advanced techniques for statistical analysis: analysis of (co)variance, multiple
linear regression, analysis of survival data, analysis of repeated measures
Advanced diagnostic research: measures of agreement, discriminant analysis,
nominal logistic regression, ordinal logistic regression, cluster analysis
Research themes:
empirical Bayes estimators
optimal designs
robustness of estimators and statistical tests
Consultation:
For various departments of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life
Sciences at Maastricht University
Key publications:
Candel, M.J.J.M. (1992). The Additive Random Feature model for
Unfolding and the feature structure of choice objects. Mathematical Social
Sciences, 23, 311-341.
Candel, M.J.J.M. (1997). Exploring the set-theoretical structure of objects by
additive trees. Psychometrika, 62, 119-131.
Candel, M.J.J.M. (1997). A probabilistic feature model for unfolding tested
for perfect and imperfect nestings. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 41,
414-430.
Candel, M.J.J.M. & Maris, E. (1997). Perceptual analysis of two-way twomode frequency data: Probability matrix decomposition and two alternatives.
International Journal of Research in Marketing, 14, 321-339.
Candel, M.J.J.M. & Pennings, J.M.E. (1999). Attitude-based models for
binary choices: A test for choices involving an innovation. Journal of
Economic Psychology, 20, 547-570.
Candel, M.J.J.M. (2001). Recovering the metric structure in ordinal data:
Linear versus nonlinear principal components analysis. Quality and Quantity,
35, 91-105.
Candel, Math J.J.M. (2001). Consumers’ convenience orientation towards
meal preparation: Conceptualization and measurement. Appetite:
Determinants and consequences of eating and drinking, 36, 15-28.
Candel, M.J.J.M. & Winkens, B. (2003). Performance of empirical Bayes
estimators of level-2 random parameters in multilevel analysis: A Monte
Carlo study for longitudinal designs. Journal of Educational and Behavioral
Statistics, 28, 169-194.
Candel, Math J.J.M. (2004). Performance of empirical Bayes estimators of
the random coefficients in multilevel analysis: Some results for the random
intercept-only model. Statistica Neerlandica, 58, 197-219.
Candel, M.J.J.M. (2007). Empirical Bayes estimators of the random intercept
in multilevel analysis: Performance of the classical, Morris and Rao version.
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 3027-3040.
Van Breukelen, G.J.P., Candel, M.J.J.M. & Berger, M.P.F. (2007). Relative
efficiency of unequal versus equal cluster sizes in cluster randomized and
multicentre trials. Statistics in Medicine, 26, 2589-2603.
Candel, M.J.J.M., Van Breukelen, G.J.P., Kotova, L. & Berger, M.P.F.
(2008). Optimality of equal versus unequal cluster sizes in multilevel
intervention studies: A Monte Carlo study for small sample sizes.
Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 37, 222-239.
Van Breukelen, G.J.P., Candel, M.J.J.M. & Berger, M.P.F. (2008). Relative
efficiency of unequal cluster sizes for variance component estimation in
cluster randomized and multicentre trials. Statistical Methods in Medical
Research, 17, 439-458.
Candel, M.J.J.M. (2009). Optimal designs for empirical Bayes estimators of
individual linear and quadratic growth curves in linear mixed models.
Statistical Methods in Medical Research. In press.
Candel, M.J.J.M. & Van Breukelen, G.J.P. (2009). Varying cluster sizes in
trials with clusters in one treatment arm: Sample size adjustments when
testing treatment effects with linear mixed models. Statistics in Medicine. In
press.
Some key publications from consultation:
De Jong, N., Candel, Math J.J.M., Schouten, H.C., Abu-Saad, Huda-Huijer
& Courtens, A.M. (2004). Prevalence and course of fatigue in breast cancer
patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. Annals of Oncology, 15, 896-905.
De Jong, N., Candel, M.J.J.M., Schouten, H.C., Abu-Saad, Huda-Huijer &
Courtens, A.M. (2005). Course of mental fatigue and motivation in breast
cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. Annals of Oncology, 16,
372-382.
De Jong, N., Candel, M.J., Schouten, H.C., Abu-Saad, H.H. & Courtens,
A.M. (2006). Course of the fatigue dimension 'activity level' as well as the
interference of fatigue with daily living activities for patients with breast
cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. Cancer Nursing, 29, E1-E13.
De Vries, H., Candel, M., Engels, R. & Mercken, L. (2006). Challenges to
the peer influence paradigm: Results for 12-13 year olds from six European
countries from the European smoking prevention framework approach study.
Tobacco Control, 15, 83-89.
Mercken, L., Candel, M., Willems, P. & de Vries, H. (2007). Disentangling
social selection and social influence on adolescent smoking: The importance
of reciprocity in friendships. Addiction, 102, 1483-1492.
Van Osch, L., Reubsaet, A., Lechner, L., Candel, M., Mercken, L. & de
Vries, H. (2008). Predicting parental sunscreen use: Disentangling the role of
action planning in the intention – behavior relationship. Psychology &
Health, 23, 829-847.
Mercken, L., Candel, M., Willems, P. & De Vries, H. (2009). Social
influence and selection effects in the context of smoking behavior: Changes
during early and mid-adolescence. Health Psychology, 28, 73-82.
Van Nispen tot Pannerden, S.C., Candel, Math, J.J.M., Zwakhalen, Sandra,
M.G., Hamers, Jan, P.H., Curfs, L.M.G. & Berger, M.P.F. (2009). An IRTbased assessment of the PACSLAC scale. Journal of Pain. In press.