Presentations given by our students at international, national, and local conferences are in bold.
2020
Price, H. L., Bruer, K. C., & Adkins, M. C. (2020). Using machine learning analyses
to explore relations between eyewitness lineup looking behaviors and
suspect guilt. Law and Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000364
Bell, S. & Flora, D. (2020, May). If coefficient alpha is wrong, which coefficient omega is right? Paper presented at the 81st Canadian Psychological Association Annual National Convention, Montréal, QC.
Farmus, L., Green, R., Till, C., Hornung, R., Martinez-Mier, E. A., Ayotte, P., Muckle, G., Lanphear, B., & Flora, D. B. (2020, May). A statistical method for clustered data with a repeated predictor. Canadian Psychological Association National Convention, Montreal, QC. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Farmus, L., Cribbie, R. A., & Rotondi, M. (May, 2020). Flipped classroom in introductory statistics: Early evidence from a sytematic review and meta-analysis. Symposium presented at the Teaching Statistics Conference, Peterborough, ON. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Farmus, L., Green, R., Till, C., Hornung, R., Martinez-Mier, E. A., Ayotte, P., Muckle, G., Lanphear, B., & Flora, D. B. (August, 2020). Critical windows of fluoride neurotoxicity in Canadian children. Symposium to be presented at the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Washington, D.C.
Farmus, L., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020, June). An equivalence test for assessing distributional normality. Poster accepted for presentation at the Modern Modeling Methods Conference, Storrs, CT. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Beribisky, N. & Cribbie R. (2020, May). Evaluating the performance of a novel equivalence testing approach for assessing the fit of structural equation models. Poster accepted for presentation at the Modern Modeling Methods convention, Storrs, CT. Convention cancelled due to COVID-19.
Farmus, L., Alter, U., Beribisky, N., Martinez Gutierrez, N., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020, May). Adherence to effect size reporting in current psychological research. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, QC.
Panzarella, E., Beribisky, N., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020, May). Denouncing the use of field-specific effect size distributions to inform magnitude. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, QC.
Beribisky, N., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020, May). Comparing sample planning strategies: Moving beyond traditional power analysis in research. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, QC.
Martinez Gutierrez, N., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020, May). Perceptions of magnitude in visual representations of effect sizes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, QC.
2019
Green, R., Farmus, L., & Till, C. (2019, November). Fluoride exposure from infant formula and child IQ in a Canadian birth cohort. Poster presented at the 5th Lillian Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Learning Institute Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Beribisky, N., & Cribbie, R. A. (2019, August). How do we judge associations among variables? A mixed methods analysis. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Tajik-Parvinchi, D. J., Farmus, L., Cribbie, R. A., Weiss, J. A. (2019, August). Clinical and parental predictors of improved emotion regulation following cognitive behaviour therapy in children with autism. Paper presented at the World Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Glasgow, Scotland.
Beribisky, N. & Cribbie, R. A. (2019, June). The use of equivalence testing and precision based power analysis in brain and cognitive science. Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS.
Beribisky, N., Alter, U., & Cribbie, R. A. (2019, June). Review of traditional a priori power analysis reporting. Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS.
Farmus, L., Martinez-Gutierrez, N., & Cribbie, R. A. (2019, June). Incidence and interpretation of statistical suppression in psychological research. Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS.
Farmus, L. & Cribbie, R. A. (2019, June). Current practices and modern methodological tools: Effect sizes and robust statistics. Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS.
Farmus, L., Tajik-Parvinchi, D., Weiss, J. & Cribbie, R. A. (2019, May). Contextualiznig statistical suppression within pretest-posttest designs. Poster presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference in Psychology (Ottawa).
2018
Farmus, L., Hunter, A., Beribisky, N., & Cribbie, R. A. (2018, June). Multiplicity control vs replication: Making an obvious choice even more obvious. Paper presented at the International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal, Canada.
Beribisky, N., Farmus, L., & Cribbie, R. A. (2018, June). Visualizing associations among variables: Equivalence and difference-based perspectives. Paper presented at the International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal, QC.
Beribisky, N., Alter, U., & Cribbie, R. (2018, May). Power analyses: A multifaceted mess. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Farmus, L., & Cribbie, R. A. (2018, May). Suppression effects in pre-post designs: Elucidating the link to regression artefacts. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
2017
Farmus, L., Arpin-Cribbie, C. A., & Cribbie, R. A. (2017, June). Continuous predictors of pretest-posttest change: Highlighting the impact of the regression artefact. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.
Hoyda, J., Counsell, A., & Cribbie, R. A. (2017, June). Traditional and Bayesian approaches for testing mean equivalence and a lack of association. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.
Counsell, A. & Cribbie, R. A. (2017, May). Equivalence testing approaches to measurement invariance. Poster presented at the Modern Modeling Methods conference, Storrs, CT.
Davidson, H. & Cribbie, R. A. (2017, May). A more powerful familywise error controlling procedure for evaluating mean equivalence. Poster presented at the Modern Modeling Methods conference, Storrs, CT.
Beribisky, N., Davidson, H., & Cribbie, R. A. (2017, June). Individual perceptions of a minimally meaningful difference. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.
Counsell, A., Beribisky, N., Farmus, L., & Cribbie, R. A. (2017, May). Positive attitudes toward using R in psychology statistics courses: Differences between graduate and undergraduate students. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
Davidson, H., Beribisky, N., Farmus, L., & Cribbie, R. A. (2017, February). The use of difference-based tests for hypotheses of a lack of association in social and personality psychology. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
2016
Counsell, A. & Cribbie, R. A. (2016, June). Attitudes towards statistics and statistical software in psychology: Implications for teaching and student success. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Victoria, BC.
Davidson, H. & Cribbie, R. A. (2016, June). Statistical software use at Canadian universities. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Victoria, BC.
Davidson, H. & Cribbie, R. A. (2016, May). Recommendations for establishing equivalence bounds. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
2015
Chalmers, R. P. (2015, June). Mixed regression effects in item response theory applications.
Symposium presentation talk at the annual Canadian Psychological Association meeting. Ottawa, Ontario.
Chalmers, R. P. (2015, February) Multidimensional Item Response Theory Applications with mirt and mirtCAT. Keynote presentation at the International Workshop on Psychometric Computing. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Counsell, A., Cribbie, R. A., & Ng, V. (2015, May). Comparing Traditional and Bayesian Approaches for Testing Mean Equivalence. Poster presentation at the 5th annual Modern Modeling Methods convention, Storrs, Connecticut.
Counsell, A. (2015, June). Are we providing enough information in the results sections? Symposium presentation at the annual Canadian Psychological Association meeting. Ottawa, Ontario.
Counsell, A., Harlow, L. L., & Duerr, S. (2015, August). A Meta-View of Research Methods in Canadian APA Journals. Poster presentation at the 123rd annual American Psychological Association Convention. Toronto, Ontario.
Flora, D., Chalmers, R. P., & Counsell, A. (2015, May) Because it might not make a DIF: Assessing differential test functioning. Symposium presentation at the annual
Modern Modeling Methods conference. Mansfield, Connecticut.
Kim, Y. J., & Pek, J. (2015, August). Evidence-based recommendations for communicating results of mediation analysis. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, Ontario.
Kim, Y. J., & Pek, J. (2015, June). Evidence-based recommendations for communicating results of mediation analysis. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association in Ottawa, Ontario.
Lee, J. A. (2015, June). A review and recommendation regarding effect sizes for single case interventions. Symposium presentation at the annual Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) meeting. Ottawa, Ontario.
Ng, V. (2015, June). The generalized linear model for continuous outcomes.
Symposium presentation talk at the annual Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) meeting. Ottawa, Ontario.
Ng, V., Cribbie, R. (2015, May). Comparing the Gamma Generalized Linear Model, Log Transformation, and Yuen-Welch for Power and Generalizability. Poster to be presented at the Modern Modeling Methods Conference, Storrs, CT.
Pek, J. & Chalmers, R. P. (2015, June) On the relationship between confidence regions and
exchangeable weights in multiple linear regression. Symposium presentation at the
annual Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) meeting. Ottawa, Ontario.
2014
Chalmers, R. P. & Pek, J. (2014, July). Graphical utilities for diagnosing nonlinear relationships in structural equation models in R. Poster presentation at the 2014 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Counsell, A., Collins, K., & Cheung, S. (2014, June). Structural equation modeling: Made easy with free software! Workshop presented at the 75th annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Counsell, A., Ragoonanan, C., & Cribbie, R. A. (2014, May). Tests for negligible interaction in factorial independent groups designs. Poster presented at the 4th annual Modern Modeling Methods convention, Storrs, Connecticut.
LaBrish, C. (2014, June). Modeling non-linear growth using SEM: Structured latent growth curve models. Paper presented at the 75th conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Ng, V., Cribbie, R. (2014, June). Equivalence Testing with Repeated Measures. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Pek, J. & Chalmers, R. P. (2014, July). Detecting nonlinearity of latent relationships with confidence envelopes for a semiparametric approach to modeling bivariate nonlinear relations among latent variables. Paper presented at the 2014 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Sinthujaa, S., Aitken, N., Lee, J. A., & Cheung, S. (2014, June). Missing data analysis with R. Getting started with R: an introduction to data management and analysis using free software. Workshop conducted at the meeting of the 75th Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2013
Counsell, A. L., & Cribbie, R. A. (2013, June). Equivalence Testing: Extending Methods to the Similarity of Dependent Correlations. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Quebec City, Quebec.
Counsell, A., Sigal, M., Chalmers, P., & Cribbie, R. A. (2013, May). Extending the Robust Means Modeling Framework. Paper Presented at the Annual Modern Modeling Methods Conference, Storrs, Connecticut.
Counsell, A. L., Cribbie, R. A., Jamieson, J., & Smith, C. E. (2013, August). Group Change with nontrivial Pretest Differences: Investigating the Errors in Variables Method. Poster presented at the 121st annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Friendly, M., & Sigal, M. J. (2013, May). Visualization for multivariate linear models. Paper presented at the Statistical Society of Canada Conference, Edmonton, Alberta.
LaBrish, C., & Flora, D. B. (2013, June). Finite-sample performance of model fit statistics for item-level exploratory factor analyses: The spurious factor problem revisited. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Quebec City, Quebec.
Sigal, M. J., & Friendly, M. (2013, August). Statistical historiography: Plotting the history of data visualization via the Milestones Project. Paper to presented at the Digital History Symposium at the Annual American Psychological Association Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sigal, M. J. (2012, July). From instructions to standards: The maturation of publication policies for American psychology. Paper presented at the Second Joint Meeting of Che- iron and the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec.
2012
Chalmers, R. P. (2012, July). mirt: A Multidimensional Item Response Theory Package in R. Invited Symposium at the 2012 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society. Lincoln, Nebraska.
Counsell, A. L., & Cribbie, R. A. (2012, June). New methods for evaluating the equivalence of regression and correlation coefficients. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Mara, C. A., Katter, J. K. Q., Greenglass, E., & Counsell, A. (2012, June). Financial threat and anxiety: The importance of proactive coping and practical social support. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
LaBrish, C., Flora, D. B., & Chalmers, R. P. (2012, June). Old and new ideas for data screening and assumption testing for exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Paper presented at the 73rd conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Relkov, T., & Counsell, A. (2012, June). Personal resources and financial threat: Predictors of psychological well-being. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Relkov, T., Counsell, A., Greenglass, G., & Buchwarld, P. (2012, July). Coping with financial threat: Factors in psychological well-being. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Convention of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Sigal, M. J. (2012, June). Counting the seconds: Working with reaction time data. Paper presented at the Social and Personality Psychology symposium on Recent Advances in Data Screening and Solutions to Assumption Violations at the Canadian Psychological Association conference, World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, NS.
2011
Smith, C. E., & Cribbie, R. A. (2011, May). Signifcance testing in structural equation modeling: Toward incorporating parameter dependencies into multiple test procedures. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans.