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
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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
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Posted on December 3, 2003 by
Ivailo Partchev
Institute of Psychology, FSU Jena
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