PPT-Latent Variables, Constructs, and Constructions

Roy Howell Texas Tech University Latent Variables Constructs and Constructions  Premise It takes both conceptual clarity and representational accuracy to advance the process of knowledge accumulation. Daniel . Oberski. Dept. of Methodology & Statistics . Tilburg University, The Netherlands. (with material from Margot . Sijssens-Bennink. & . Jeroen. . Vermunt. ). About Tilburg University Methodology & Statistics. Clustering. Rajhans . Samdani. ,. . Kai-Wei . Chang. , . Dan . Roth. Department . of Computer Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-. Champaign. Coreference resolution: cluster denotative noun phrases (. Latent Classes. A population contains a mixture of individuals of different types (classes). Common form of the data generating mechanism within the classes. Observed outcome y is governed by the . common process . Causes. (More Theory than Applied). . Peter Spirtes, Erich . Kummerfeld. , Richard Scheines, Joe Ramsey. 1. An example. Person 1. Stress. Depression. 3. Religious Coping. Task: learn causal model. Peter Congdon, Queen Mary University of London, School of Geography & Life Sciences Institute. Outline. Background. Bayesian approaches: advantages/cautions. Bayesian Computing, Illustrative . BUGS model, Normal Linear . Part II: Definition and Properties. Nevin. L. Zhang. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering. The Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.. http://www.cse.ust.hk/~lzhang. AAAI 2014 Tutorial. Part II: Concept . Women. Histories: . of sexuality . vs of . female sociability. Victims of Sexuality. Artemisia Gentileschi (. fl. 1614-20) Agostino . Tassi. as . Holifernes. Lord Hale . 45 men convicted of rape between 1700 and 1799 . AlgoritHm. Online Recommendations. Motivation. It is now common to get “personal recommendations” when we visit a website.. News articles. Product recommendations. Advertisements. Why ?. Unlike paper newspapers or brick and mortar stores, there is no limit [in terms of space/inventory] what can be shown or sold on a web-site... Child maltreatment through the lens of neuroscience. Friday 2. nd. December 2016. Eamon McCrory PhD . DClinPsy. Director of Postgraduate Studies, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. Analysis. . for Lexical Semantics . and . Knowledge Base Embedding. UIUC 2014 . Scott Wen-tau . Yih. Joint work with. Kai-Wei . Chang, Bishan Yang, . Chris Meek, Geoff Zweig, John Platt. Microsoft Research. Trang Quynh Nguyen, May 9, 2016. 410.686.01 Advanced Quantitative Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical Introduction. Objectives. Provide a QUICK introduction to latent class models and finite mixture modeling, with examples. Alan Nicewander. Pacific Metrics. Presented at a conference to honor . Dr. Michael W. Browne of the Ohio State University, September 9-10, 2010 . Using the factor analytic version of item response (IRT) models, . Peter Congdon, Queen Mary University of London, School of Geography & Life Sciences Institute. Outline. Background. Bayesian approaches: advantages/cautions. Bayesian Computing, Illustrative . BUGS model, Normal Linear . Nisheeth. Coin toss example. Say you toss a coin N times. You want to figure out its bias. Bayesian approach. Find the generative model. Each toss ~ Bern(. θ. ). θ. ~ Beta(. α. ,. β. ). Draw the generative model in plate notation.