Psychometric Society 2009 Meeting in Cambridge: Invited Talks

Nanny Wermuth, Department of Biostatistics, Chalmers University, Sweden. Graphical and structural equation models.

Tom Minka, Machine Learning and Perception Group, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. Automating variational inference for statistics and data mining.

Carol Woods, Department of Psychology, Washington University of St. Louis, USA. IRT-LR-DIF with estimation of the latent densities.

Rebecca Nugent, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Finding and visualizing hierarchical cluster structure as an alternative to cognitive diagnosis models.

Herb Marsh, Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Self-Concept Research: A substantive-quantitative synergy.

Edoardo Airoldi, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, USA. Statistical models and algorithms for analyzing graphs and node attributes.