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Dear Colleagues, this is the second announcement and call for papers for the 24th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences (SMABS). The conference will be held at the University of Jena, Germany on July 18-21, 2004. ORGANIZATION The conference is organized by the Department of Methodology and Evaluation Research of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. All required information will be available at the conference website at http://www.smabs.org Please visit the website to register for conference participation, receive information on the scientific program (including keynote lectures, invited symposia, workshops and contributed sessions) as well as the social program, submit your abstract, subscribe/unsubscribe for the SMABS 2004 newsletter, learn about Jena and much more. OBJECTIVE The objective of this conference is to present recent developments and stimulate discussion among researchers in the field of quantitative methodology for the social and behavioral as well as educational and econometric sciences. You are invited to present papers on both theoretical developments and applications of statistical or data-analytical methods in the fields mentioned above. The program will include invited keynote lectures, symposia, individual paper presentations, poster sessions and software presentations as well as social events. Members of the local and scientific committee will select abstracts (max. 300 words, including keywords and references) submitted by January 15, 2004. SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts can be submitted via the conference website (http://www.smabs.org) in the section ''Program'' > ''Submit Abstracts''. Deadline for the submission of abstracts is January, 15th, 2004. INVITED SPEAKERS A number of excellent researchers have accepted an invitation to hold a keynote address or organize a symposium, among them Peter Bentler (UCLA, USA), Linda Collins (PennState, USA), Michael Eid (University of Geneve, Switzerland), John Graham (PennState, USA), Joop Hox (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands), Karl Joereskog (University of Uppsala, Sweden), Robert Mislevy (University of Maryland, USA), José Muñiz (University of Oviedo, Spain), Donald Rubin (Harvard University, USA), Tamas Rudas (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary), Theodore Walls (PennState, USA) and Mark Wilson (UC Berkeley, USA). WORKSHOPS Two pre- and two post-conference workshops will be held on July, 17th and July, 22nd, respectively. Topics will be Structural Equation Modeling with EQS 6 (Peter Bentler; UCLA, USA), Causality (Donald Rubin; Harvard University, USA), Latent Class Regression (Jeroen Vermunt; University of Tilburg, The Netherlands) and ConQuest 2.0 (Mark Wilson; UC Berkeley, USA). Participation for the workshops is limited, places are assigned on a first come, first serve basis. You can sign up now in the registration section at the conference website. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM EASTERN EUROPE We may be able to offer financial support to a limited number of participants from Eastern Europe. The financial support includes partial funding of travel expenses, hotel accommodation and exemption from registration fees. For terms and conditions, visit the conference website (http://www.smabs.org), section ''Scholarships''. Please forward this mail to all colleagues who might be interested in the conference (or alternatively, use the ''tell-a-friend'' feature at the conference website). We are looking forward to welcoming you in Jena. Rolf Steyer Andreas Wolf Local Committee ******************************************* SMABS 2004 conference website: http://www.smabs.org conference office: SMABS 2004, c/o Katrin Schaller University of Jena Am Steiger 3, Hs. 1 07743 Jena Germany mail: [log in to unmask] phone: +49-3641-945230 fax: +49-3641-945232 ******************************************* Posted on December 3, 2003 by Ivailo Partchev Institute of Psychology, FSU Jena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conference news at www.smabs.org