QM Graduate Student Publications

The names of Quantitative Methods graduate students on these publications are in bold.

2025 (or in press)

Flora, D. B., Crone, G., & Bell, S. M. (2025). Effect size interpretation in structural equation models. [Advanced Online Publication]. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journalhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2025.2459768

Crone, G., & Green, C. D. (2025). Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology. Theory & Psychology35(3), 359–380. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241311861

Chalmers, R. P., & Campbell, S. (2025). Including Empirical Prior Information in the Reliable Change Index. Applied Psychological Measurement0(0), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/01466216251358492

Alter, U., Crone, G., Camilleri, C., & Counsell, A. (2025). A Mismatch Between Open Science Practices and Intentions in North America: Barriers and Incentives for Early Career and Senior Researchers. [In press]. Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadiennehttps://osf.io/5mn2x/

Crone, G., Alter, U., & Counsell, A. (2025). Expanding Statistical Horizons: Supplementary Training Trends in a Sample of North American Psychology Researchers. [In press]. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. https://osf.io/673kj/

Alter, U., Too, M. A., & Cribbie, R. A. (2025). Navigating the Bayes Maze: The Psychologist’s Guide to Bayesian Statistics, a Hands-On Tutorial with R Code. Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology: Tutorials on Quantitative Methods for Applied Psychological Researchershttps://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13271

Too, M. A., Alter, U., & Flora, D. B. (2025). Modelling Count Data in Psychological Research: An Applied Tutorial. [Accepted]. Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology: Tutorials on Quantitative Methods for Applied Psychological Researchers. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70018

Beribisky, N., Alter, U., & Cribbie, R. A. (in press). A Multi-Faceted Mess: A Review of Statistical Power Analysis in Psychology Journal Articles. Meta-Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3bdfu

2024

Camilleri, C.Alter, U., Cribbie, R. A. (2024). Identifying Influential Observations in Multiple Regression. The Quantitative Methods for Psychologyhttps://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.20.2.p096

Alter, U., Dang, C., Kunicki, Z., & Counsell, A. (2024). The VSSL Scale: A Brief Instructor Tool for Assessing Students' Perceived Value of Software to Learning Statistics. Teaching Statisticshttps://doi.org/10.1111/test.12374

Martinez Gutierrez, N. DeSouza, J., Alter, U., Bell, S., Beribisky, N., Farmus, L., Tu, E., & Cribbie, R. A. (2024). Multiplicity Control in Psychological Research: A Systematic Review of Applied Practices. [Accepted]. Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadiennehttps://osf.io/ne79j/

D’Amico, D., Alter, U., Laurin, D., Ferland, G., & Fiocco, A. J. (2024). Examining a Healthy Lifestyle as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Psychological Distress and Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults in the Nuage Study. Gerontology. 1-11. Online ahead of printhttps://doi.org/10.1159/000535978

Lohmann, A., Luijken, K., Alter, U., Claramunt Gonzalez, J., Clouth, F., Fossum, J.L., Hesen, L., Huizing, A., Ketelaar, J., Montoya, A.K., Nab, L., Nijman, R.C.C., Penning de Vries, B.B.L., Tibbe, T.D., Wang, Y.A., Groenwold, R.H.H. (2024). Replicability of Simulation Studies for the Investigation of Statistical Methods: The RepliSims Project. Royal Society Open Science. 11: 231003. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231003

2023

Alter, U., & Counsell, A. (2023). Determining Negligible Association in Regression. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology. 19(1): 59-83. https://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.19.1.p059

D’Amico, D., Alter, U., & Fiocco, A. J. (2023). Cumulative Stress Exposure and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults: The Moderating Role of a Healthy Lifestyle. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 78(12), 1983-1991. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad116

Di Bartolomeo, A. A., Alter, U., Olson, D. A., Cooper, M. B., Boritz, T., & Westra, H. A. (2023). Predicting Resistance Management Skill from Psychotherapy Experience, Intellectual Humility and Emotion Regulation. Psychotherapy Research34(7), 885–898. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2023.2280240

Terry, J., Ross, R. M., Nagy, T., Salgado, M., Garrido-Vásquez, P., Sarfo, J. O., …Alter, U., … Field, A. P. (2023). Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset). Journal of Open Psychology Data 11: 8, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.80

Farmus, L., Beribisky, N., Martinez Gutierrez, N., Alter, U., Panzarella, E., & Cribbie, R. A. (2023). Effect size reporting and interpretation in social personality research. Current Psychology42(18), 15752–15762. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02621-7

2022

Spreng, R. N., Setton, R., Alter, U., Cassidy, B. N., Darboh, B., DuPre, E., Kantarovich, K., Lockrow, A. W., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Luh, W., Kundu, P., & Turner, G. R. (2022). Neurocognitive Aging Data Release with Behavioral, Structural and Multi-echo Functional MRI Measures. Scientific Data, 9(1), 119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01231-7

Cribbie, R. A., Alter, U., Beribisky, N., Chalmers, R. P., Counsell, A., Farmus, L., Martinez Gutierrez, N., Ng, V. (2022). negligible: R package for negligible effect/equivalence testing. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/negligible/index.html

Farmus, L., Beribisky, N., Martinez Gutierrez, N., Alter, U., Panzarella, E., & Cribbie, R. A. (2022). Effect size reporting and interpretation in social personality research. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02621-7

Martinez Gutierrez, N., & Cribbie, R. (2022). Effect sizes for equivalence testing: Incorporating the equivalence interval. PsyArXiv. 10.31234/osf.io/5buz9

2021

Beribisky, N., Alter, U., & Cribbie, R. A. (2021). A multi-faceted mess: A review of statistical power analysis in psychology journal articles. Meta-Psychology. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3bdfu

Panzarella, E., Beribisky, N., & Cribbie, R. A. (2021). Denouncing the use of field-specific effect size distributions to inform magnitude. PeerJ9, e11383. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11383

Tajik-Parvinchi, D., Farmus, L., Tablon-Modica1, P., Cribbie, R. A., & Weiss, J. A. (2021). The role of cognitive control and emotion regulation in predicting mental health problems in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Child: Care, Health and Development, 47, 608-617. 10.1111/cch.12868

Martinez Gutierrez, N., & Cribbie, R. (2021). Incidence and interpretation of statistical suppression in psychological research. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 53, 480–488. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000267

2020

Beribisky, N., Mara, C., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020). An equivalence-based approach to assessing substantial mediation. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 16, 424-441.  https://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.16.4.p424

Davidson, H. & Cribbie, R. A. (2020). A more powerful familywise error controlling procedure for evaluating mean equivalence. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 49, 2914-2929. https://10.1080/03610918.2018.1530783.

Counsell, A., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020). Student attitudes toward learning statistics with R. Psychology Teaching Review, 24. https://shop.bps.org.uk/psychology-teaching-review-vol-26-no-2-2020.

Farmus, L. & Cribbie, R. A. (2020). Contextualizing statistical suppression within pretest-posttest designs. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 16, 21-32. https://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.16.1.p021

Farmus, L., Rotondi, M., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020). The flipped classroom improves performance in introductory statistics: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Statistics Education, 28, 316-325. 10.1080/10691898.2020.1834475

Tajik-Parvinchi, D., Farmus, L., Cribbie, R. A., Albaum, C., Weiss, J. A. (2020). Clinical and parental predictors of emotion regulation following cognitive behaviour therapy in children with autism. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 24, 851-866. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320909178

Hunter, A., Beribisky, N., Farmus, L., & Cribbie, R. (2020). Multiplicity control vs replication: Making an obvious choice even more obvious. Meta-Psychology, 4. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2019.1992

Counsell, A., Cribbie, R. A., & Flora, D. (2020). Evaluating equivalence testing methods for measurement invariance. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 52, 312-328.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2019.1633617

Chalmers, R. P., & Adkins, M., C. (2020) Writing Effective and Reliable Monte Carlo Simulations with the SimDesign Package. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 16(4), 248-280. doi: 10.20982/tqmp.16.4.p248

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.

2019

Davidson, H. & Cribbie, R. A. (2019). A more powerful familywise error controlling procedure for evaluating mean equivalence. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2018.1530783.

Hoyda, J., Counsell, A., & Cribbie, R. A. (2019). Traditional and Bayesian approaches for testing mean equivalence and a lack of association. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 15, 12-24. DOI: 10.20982/tqmp.15.1.p012.

Farmus, L., Arpin-Cribbie, C. A., & Cribbie, R. A. (2019). Continuous predictors of pretest-posttest change: Highlighting the impact of the regression artifact. Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, 4, 1-8. 4:64. DOI: 10.3389/fams.2018.00064.

Davidson, H., Jabbari, Y., Peters, K., Patton, H., O’Hagan, F. & Cribbie, R. A. (2019). Statistical software in Canadian university psychology courses. Teaching of Psychology, 46, 246–250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628319853940.

Ng, V. K. & Cribbie, R.A. (2019). The gamma generalized linear model, log transformation, and the robust Yuen-Welch test for analyzing group means with skewed and heteroscedastic data. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 48, 2269-2286. DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2018.1440301.

2018 

Shiskina, T., Farmus, L., & Cribbie, R. A. (2018). Testing for a lack of relationship among categorical variables. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 14, 167-179.

Kim, Y. J. & Cribbie, R. A. (2018). The variance homogeneity assumption and the traditional ANOVA: Exploring a better gatekeeper. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 71, 1-12. DOI: 10.1111/bmsp.12103.

2017

Mara, C. & Cribbie, R. A. (2017). Equivalence of population variances: Synchronizing the objective and analysis. Journal of Experimental Education, 86, 442-457. DOI:       10.1080/00220973.2017.1301356

Counsell, A., & Cribbie, R. A. (2017). Using the errors-in-variables method in two-group pretest-posttest design. Methodology, 13, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-2241/a000122

Ng, V. K. & Cribbie, R.A. (2017). Modeling continuous, skewed and heteroscedastic outcomes in   psychology: Is generalized modeling the best 'fit'? Current Psychology, 36, 225-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-015-9404-0

Counsell, A., & Harlow, L. L. (2017). Reporting Practices and Use of Quantitative Methods in Canadian Journal Articles in Psychology. Canadian Psychology, 58, 140-147. 10.1037/cap0000074

Chalmers, R. P., & Ng, V. (2017). Plausible-Value Imputation Statistics for Detecting Item Misfit. Applied psychological measurement41(5), 372–387. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146621617692079

Chalmers, R., P., Pek, J., & Liu, Y. (2017). Profile-likelihood confidence intervals in item response theory models. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 52, 533-550. 10.1080/00273171.2017.1329082

Counsell, A., Furtado, M., Iorio, C., Anand, L., Canzonieri, A., Fine, A., …, & Katzman, M. A. (in press). Intolerance of uncertainty, social anxiety, and generalized anxiety: Differences   by diagnosis and symptoms. Psychiatry Research, 252, 63-69. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.02.046

2016 

Chalmers, R. P. (2016). Generating Adaptive and Non-Adaptive Test Interfaces for Multidimensional Item Response Theory Applications. Journal of Statistical Software, 71, 1-38.

Chalmers, R. P., Counsell, A., & Flora, D. B. (2016). It might not make a big DIF: Improved Differential Test Functioning statistics that account for sampling variability. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1, 114-140. 

Counsell, A., Cribbie, R. A, & Harlow, L. L. (2016) Increasing Literacy in Quantitative Methods: The Key to the Future of Canadian Psychology. Canadian Psychology, 57, 193-201.

Cribbie, R. A., Ragoonanan, C., & Counsell, A. (2016). Testing for negligible interaction: A coherent and robust approach. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 69, 159-174.

Pek, J., Chalmers, R. P., & Monette, G. (2016). On the Relationship Between Confidence Regions and Exchangeable Weights in Multiple Linear Regression. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 51, 719-739.

Sigal, M. J., & Chalmers, R. P. (2016). Play It Again: Teaching Statistics with Monte Carlo Simulation. Journal of Statistics Education, 24, 1-21.