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Dan McNeish

@dmcneish.bsky.social
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Quant Psyc professor at Arizona State. Into clustered data, latent variables, psychometrics, intensive longitudinal data, and growth modeling. sites.google.com/site/danielmmcneish

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Laura M Stapleton @lauramstapleton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Quantitative Methodologists out there… we are hiring at the Assistant Professor level! Please consider joining our community! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
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Assistant Professor
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Quantitative Methodology: Measurement and Statistics (QMMS) program in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology (H...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods
Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...
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Yi Feng @yifeng.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A few weeks ago you’ve heard about nmax as the insurance policy for sample size planning on @quantitude.bsky.social Today we’re excited to launch the nmax Shiny app. Sample size planning with nmax can now be done in just a few button clicks! 🚀 yifeng-quant.shinyapps.io/nmax/
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Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📢 The most recent volume of the Annual Review of Psychology is now online! The most read article so far is "How Do Psychologists Determine Whether a Measurement Scale Is Good? A Quarter-Century of Scale Validation with Hu & Bentler (1999)" by @dmcneish.bsky.social. arevie.ws/4jRYY6B
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Tenure-Track Quant Psyc job opening at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Areas of interest are pretty broad (SEM, multilevel, or psychometrics), the deadline to apply is coming up soon (Sept 15) if you're interested! careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
About the Department/College The Department of Psychological Sciences is located on the Flagstaff Mountain Campus of Northern Arizona University (NAU), situated at the base of San Francisco Peaks. NAU...
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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
For those interested, here is a link to a new power paper: Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods. yifengquant.github.io/Publications...
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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🧵 Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets. This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️ Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky 1/9
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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are highly impactful stressors that increase individuals' risk for a plethora of negative developmental and health outcomes. Furthermore, minoritized groups and u...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New paper on dealing with MNAR intensive longitudinal data. Ran into this problem in an empirical study and didn't find too much in the methods literature on MNAR ILD, so this was the best I could come up with. Lots of opportunity to improve methods in this area! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New paper - coefficients like alpha/omega are commonly reported to summarize reliability. A sneaky nuance is that reliability is actually different at each score in the data. Paper tries to quantify how representative alpha/omega are of a typical score. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This paper on intensive longitudinal reliability led by Sebastian Castro-Alvarez is one of the best I've read in a while -- the review was so thorough, the code was fantastic, and it answered any questions I had about IL reliability. Definitely check it out you work with ILD! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Next week, I'm teaching a 3-day workshop on DSEM for intensive longitudinal data using Mplus and registration is still open -- more information about the topics and registration can be found here! statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/dyn...
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Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling Seminar | Statistics Course
This online course by Dan McNeish Ph.D., introduces both foundational and intermediate topics in DSEM.
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I don't understand how you can read and understand an evolving literature without keeping up with methodological developments. What are we supposed to do, just read discussion sections and take people's word for it?
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The basic principle is that reviewers are tired, they're rushed, they're reading your and 10 other grants on top of their normal workload. Anything you can do to make it easy for them will help. Here's a list of my suggestions.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This article gives a phenomenal overview of the history and evolution of best practices in measurement invariance and differential item functioning -- I can't remember the last time I learned so much reading a single paper, highly recommended! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A Review of Some of the History of Factorial Invariance and Differential Item Functioning
The concept of factorial invariance has evolved since it originated in the 1930s as a criterion for the usefulness of the multiple factor model; it has become a form of analysis supporting the vali...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Posting for a Bsky-less friend -- New quant job posting for an Asst Professor at the University of Georgia in machine learning/data science/AI (very broadly defined) with applications to educational research. Due date is Dec 2! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/403...
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Assistant Professor (Quantitative Methodology)
The Quantitative Methodology (QM) Program in Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in Educational...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
New Paper w/@melissagwolf.bsky.social- Dynamic fit cutoffs now support any covariance structure model (e.g., bifactor, hierarchical, & mediation models). Also supports categorical and non-normal outcomes Use the DDDFI function in dynamic package on GitHub www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... /1
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Direct Discrepancy Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Arbitrary Covariance Structure Models
Despite the popularity of traditional fit index cutoffs like RMSEA ≤ .06 and CFI ≥ .95, several studies have noted issues with overgeneralizing traditional cutoffs. Computational methods have been ...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
New paper w/ Roy Levy These 2 path diagrams are conceptually different (regression with a latent predictor that has 3 indicators vs. a factor model with 4 indicators) but they are mathematically equivalent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... /1
Two path diagrams are shown. On the left side, the conceptual idea is a latent variable with three indicators predicting an observed outcome. On the right side, the conceptual idea is a latent variable with four indicators.
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Psychology really needs to go back to square 1 on measurement. Even the major replications haven’t taken the lack of valid measures seriously. We are making up questions and questionnaires daily w/o validating constructs or tasks. This means our foundation is seriously shaky @jkflake.bsky.social
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Yesterday I spent the day at an interdisciplinary meeting about rigor in science. It was a little depressing in what we are still working through regarding poor practices and incentives in science. Also, uplifting in that the movement to rectify the issues-has/is creating tools to move forward 1/n
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Adam Kuczynski @adamkuczynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
How do we measure experiences of loneliness in daily life? A thread for clinical psychologists, relationship scientists, EMA nerds, and measurement geeks 🧵👇 Preregistration, data, analysis scripts, and materials at osf.io/cwgme/. #psychscisky #rstats #statssky
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
"Dynamic structural equation models with binary and ordinal outcomes in Mplus" - comes with a handy MPlus tutorial! link.springer.com/article/10.3... @dmcneish.bsky.social Somers & Savord
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
I somehow (!?!) missed that @dmcneish.bsky.social and Wolf have a dynamic fit indices Shiny app? Slapping this right into my measurement seminar slides. dynamicfit.app/connect/
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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Follow Dan because chances are that if you are wishing for a paper on an under-documented yet essential stats thing, he will have written it within the next 30 days
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Most papers comparing clustered data methods use biostat/econ language, so I tried to write one using psyc/ed language that covers the origin of the independence assumption, how each method handles ind. violations, and types of questions best-suited for each method psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Now in press at MBR, led by Lydia Speyer: Within person moderation in intensive longitudinal data using 2 level DSEM, pushing against the borders of what Mplus can do (coming soon: Everything ported to Rstan) #StatsSky #PsychSciSky osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
We are hiring at the University of Michigan Depression Denter. The goal is clear. Move the needle on improving mental health. But the task is hard. So we are building a multidisciplinary team. Positions are open at all ranks and in any relevant discipline. depressioncenter.org/about/facult...
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Jenny Howell @jennyhowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Our Quantitative Methods, Measurements, and Statistics area is hiring! Come join us! aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01611
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Assistant Professor - Psychological Sciences
University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
New print w/@MelissaGWolf on dynamic fit index cutoffs. Our software can now derive customized DFI cutoffs for ANY covariance structure model (CFA, SEM, mediation, bifactor, etc.) and supports normal, non-normal, categorical, and missing data (and any estimator) 1/9 psyarxiv.com/4r9fq
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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Dear researchers in clinical psychology: Please give me more work! I am the Senior Editor for Clinical Psychology at Collabra: Psychology, and the Clinical Psych section is sleepy. 💤 Collabra should be on your list of outlets for your work! Ask me what you want to know about it!
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Victoria Savalei @vsavalei.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Nice to finally be let in! Please re-? the ad below! Thank you. :) UBC Psychology invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in quantitative methods, to begin on July 1, 2024. The deadline for applications is OCT 13, 2023! psyc.air.arts.ubc.ca/assistant-pr...
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