Prof Todd Little will be delivering his prestige lecture at Optentia on 15 April 2019.
He is a professor and director of the Research, Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics programme at Texas Tech University (TTU). In 2013 he became the founding director of the Institute for Measurement, Methodology, Analysis and Policy (IMMAP).
The institute at TTU is a university designated research and support centre that provides expert consulting and assistance on data collection and management as well as advanced statistical analyses.
More about the expert
Prof Little is internationally recognised for his quantitative work on various aspects of applied SEM, including modern missing data treatments, indicator selection, parceling and modeling developmental processes. He is also well known for his substantive developmental research that includes action-control processes and motivation as well as coping and self-regulation.
As an interdisciplinary oriented collaborator, Prof Little has published with over 340 international researchers in 67 different peer-reviewed journals. His work has garnered over 30 000 citations (with an H-index of 85 and an I-10 index of 196).
He published Longitudinal Structural Equation Modelling in 2013 and he has edited five books related to methodology, including the Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods and the Guilford Handbook of Developmental Research Methods (with Brett Laursen and Noel Card).
Prof Little has served on numerous grant review panels for federal agencies such as NSF, NIH, and IES, as well as private foundations such as the Jacobs Foundation. He has been principal or co-principal investigator on over 40 grants and contracts, and has served as a statistical consultant on more than 85 grants and contracts.
Through his collaborative research he has participated in the development of more than 12 different measurement tools, including the CAMI, the Multi-CAM, the BALES, the BISC, the I FEEL and the form/function decomposition of aggression.
He founded the internationally renowned Stats Camps* which he organises and presents each June. He has presented more than 150 global workshops and talks on methodology topics.
At the end of April Opentia will be hosting the first ever South African Stats Camp together with Prof Little and Prof Rens van der Schoot, another extraordinary professor at Optentia.
Attending the prestige lecture
Enquiries can be directed to Ms Lynn Booysen at Lynn.Booysen@nwu.ac.za.
*See https://www.statscamp.org/ for more information about Stats Camp.
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