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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

5 years

I don’t know what the question is, but the answer is almost never “MANOVA.”

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Gregory R. Hancock

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1 year

RECOMMENDATION LETTER, AMERICAN COLLEAGUE: “Look no further! This person is absolutely amazing!! Hire them immediately!!!” RECOMMENDATION LETTER, EUROPEAN COLLEAGUE: “I find no reason to be dissatisfied with this person’s work at the current time.”

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Gregory R. Hancock

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5 years

If someone does a Monte Carlo simulation study using Python, can we call it a “Monte Python” study? Please?

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Gregory R. Hancock

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On behalf of statisticians and quantitative methodologists, please try to seek our help *before* your research, not after. We would much rather be your study’s physician than coroner.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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Me, when a co-author tries to sneak a sentence past me that is missing an Oxford comma.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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3 months

I just picked up my daughter’s doctoral regalia. The daughter who was strapped to my chest in a BabyBjörn when I lectured. The daughter whose face I looked into as an undergrad in my course. The daughter who could not possibly make me more proud. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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@MaartenvSmeden Also...

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Gregory R. Hancock

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dear students…

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This darn multilevel ordinal logistic regression model just won’t converge. It must be too logit to quit.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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3 years

Tip for students: If you want to email your professor about how you don’t think your grade reflects how much you’re paying attention in class, do not send the email in the middle of said class. 👍

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Gregory R. Hancock

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And I still love school every bit as much as I did all the grades before. ❤️

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Gregory R. Hancock

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4 years

As someone who has been trained on both sides of the fence, I can say unambiguously...

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Gregory R. Hancock

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Students’ least favorite academic subjects ranked: 10) you 9) can’t 8) rank 7) them 6) because 5) individuals 4) like 3) different 2) things 1) Statistics

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

2 years

Software is a tool. Not a religion. That is all.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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1 year

Repeat after me: “I didn’t get as much done this summer as I had hoped, and that’s okay.”

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

4 years

To denote missing data some people use a blank some people use -999 My current data feel like: 0 🖕 4 3 🖕 6 🖕 690 590 🖕🖕 1 1 1 🖕 700 680 🖕 0 1 2 🖕🖕 3 710 690 680 1 3 🖕 4 4 4 🖕 720 710 1 4 🖕🖕🖕 3 680 🖕 🖕 …

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Gregory R. Hancock

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3 years

Is it wrong that at the start of each zoom meeting I am actively wishing that the other person forgot about the meeting?

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Gregory R. Hancock

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3 years

Why do people hate statistics? In one academic paper: ALPHA could refer to... type I error rate reliability population regression intercept latent mean/intercept ... BETA could refer to... type II error rate unstandardized population slope standardized sample slope ... 😳

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 months

Please allow me to present… Dr. Sydney Nichole Hancock ❤️

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Gregory R. Hancock

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4 years

Do you ever email someone that you’re running a few minutes late, not because you actually are, but because you’re just not yet emotionally ready for another meeting?

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Gregory R. Hancock

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#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 years

when you have finished writing the Discussion section, and find out there were data entry errors...

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Gregory R. Hancock

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@zeyneparsel @prof_nch

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Gregory R. Hancock

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Just now... EYE DOC: You should wear glasses with blue-block, which we sell out front, since your screen time might cause cataracts. ME: Clinical research has established this link? EYE DOC: I don’t believe in statistics. They.can say whatever you want. ME: So can you.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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1 year

HEY ACADEMICS: How long has it been since you heard someone say “R and R” and you understood that to mean “Rest and Relaxation”?

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Gregory R. Hancock

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Perhaps not the most impressive demonstration of Amazon’s Machine Learning capabilities...

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Gregory R. Hancock

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3 years

I have seen much thoughtful discussion about the value of research in general. I have lived through many sentiments, which I coalesced into this figure. After 30 or so years in academia, I find myself moving from Stage 1 to Stage 2, to no one’s greater surprise than my own.

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“Professor Johnson, you’re muted. Professor Johnson? You need to click—. Professor Joh— click the microphone icon. Profess—. Bottom left….”

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

5 years

If other researchers make up data, it’s called ‘fabrication’; their work gets retracted and they are fired. If I make up data, it’s called ‘simulation’; my work gets published and I am promoted. I love this job.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 years

Yes, as a matter of fact, I did sit poised over my computer for an excessively anticipatory amount of time.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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3 years

Undergraduate students, trying to learn the entire course the night before the final exam.

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

8 months

What?! A 3-day online course covering longitudinal SEM and latent growth models?! Sign. Me. Up. 😍 Still time to sign up to join me, synchronously and/or asynchronously, Jan 10-12. Student discount available. See you soon!

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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My structural equation modeling short courses are all next week. It’s my 23rd year of teaching this and I have the largest number of registrants ever. It is SO MUCH FUN to see people get empowered by the analytical potential of this framework. I am SO EXCITED!!!! 😊

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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My high school age son Tate is watching a video about the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. ME: Hey, how cool. I wrote a report on Krakatoa when I was in school! TATE: For which class, Current Events?

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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Pearson's product-moment correlation data: My_Morning_Wordle_Score and Quality_Of_My_Day sample estimates: cor -0.8676594 TELL ME IT’S NOT CAUSAL. I DARE YOU.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 years

Why is it that people who don’t look at data often have much more certainty about a phenomenon than people who take painstaking care to gather and analyze data specifically for the purpose of understanding that phenomenon? 😢

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

3 years

My friend Patrick Curran and I are co-teaching a 5-day workshop in Applied Measurement Modeling. Factor models, invariance testing, scoring, reliability modeling, moderated nonlinear factor models... SO MUCH COOL STUFF! Hope you can join us.

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Our Applied Measurement Modeling workshop will be held May 24-28, 2021. Join us for the Livestream or catch the replays for 6 months after the workshop. Registration is open now until the beginning of the workshop. #Measurement #StatisticsTraining

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Gregory R. Hancock

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SEM: A First Course — Jan 4-6 SEM: A Second Course — Jan 7-8

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Gregory R. Hancock

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When you get a text like this, it really doesn’t matter what else happens that day. ❤️

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

3 years

My school-age son told me, with an I’ve-waited-for-this-moment-my-whole-life twinkle in his eye, “Dad, I’m really concerned about your screen time.”

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 years

What?! A 3-day online course covering longitudinal SEM and latent growth models?! Sign. Me. Up. 😍 Still time to sign up to join me, synchronously and/or asynchronously, Jan 11-13. Student discount available. See you soon!

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Gregory R. Hancock

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What? A 3-day online course covering longitudinal SEM and latent growth models?! Sign. Me. Up. 😍 Still time to sign up to join me, synchronously and/or asynchronously, Jan 19-21. See you soon!

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Gregory R. Hancock

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4 years

21st second of the 21st minute of the 21st hour of the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 months

Seeing your academic family member’s name when you open a journal… Never. Gets. Old. 🤗

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5 years

The darker side of statistics.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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1 year

The most awkward 3 seconds? When you say goodbye at the end of a zoom call and then try to hold that happy face as you fumble to close out of the call.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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New faculty are not hired to fill holes. They’re hired to seed and shape your program’s, and your field’s, future. Make their paths better than the one you had.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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One of the greatest parts of academia is learning things from your students. As they progress through their studies, I strongly suggest that you work to turn the tables so more and more they’re teaching things to you. It's so good for the students, and for you, on so many levels.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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NON-ACADEMIC FRIEND: "Being a prof is pretty cushy, right? Don't you only have to work, like, half a day?" ME: "Yep, and it’s mostly up to me. Sometimes I work the first 12 hours, sometimes I work the last 12 hours."

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Gregory R. Hancock

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I am thankful for: • a job where I get to learn all the time; • working with such wonderful colleagues; • students who teach me more than I ever learned in any class; • a family who supports me as an academic and as a person; • peanut M&Ms.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 years

Public Service Announcement: It’s okay to have an idea that goes unpublished. Thank you.

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@RachelRRomeo Take away the numbers and labels on both axes and make it a fun guessing game… A Mystogram!

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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In the early days of Spell-Check, I was initially so enamored I had it set on automated correction. In a manuscript I was writing on structural equation modeling, Microsoft Word changed every instance of Jöreskog to Foreskin.

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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One of my favorite comments from a reviewer of a manuscript I wrote many years ago: “This paper is a great idea. Such a great idea,in fact, that Scheffé wrote about it in 1971.”

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Gregory R. Hancock

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4 years

TFW you find an error in your work after publication...

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

5 months

@ReadTheSyllabus I had the mother of a 21-year-old college student make an appointment with me to tell me that he is a good boy and he tries hard, and perhaps there was some extra work I could give him to to raise his grade.

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

2 years

👉 How to Start an Academic Center: 1) Pick cool acronym & doodle logos, while in faculty meeting. 2) Contort English language beyond recognition to fit acronym. 3) Fill out paperwork to get center approved, improvising mission statement. 4) Create website. 5) Oh shit, what now?

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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2020 I resolve to remind myself: “Maybe that person is doing the best he or she can right now.” I resolve to remind myself: “Maybe I am doing the best I can right now.”

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Gregory R. Hancock

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First day of school! (April 15th)

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On a nice Sunday walk with Gus.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 years

@TheYiFeng gave me the best gift ever — the privilege of working with her. But also, this next best gift — her framed Lego rendition of our @quantitudepod intern, the beloved Jiffy the lemur ( @Jiffy55095324 ). 🥺🤗

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Gregory R. Hancock

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I’m pretty sure path diagrams are my love language.

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Awww, I’m [TOUCHED].

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

3 years

Is your New Year’s resolution to learn how to analyze longitudinal data? How about a 3-day online course covering longitudinal SEM and latent growth models? Join me, synchronously and/or asynchronously, Jan 19-21.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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2 years

I just turned on my phone’s flashlight. To go into a dark room. To look for my phone.

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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Son: “Dad, we’re out of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. What should I use on my toast instead?” Me: “Um… butter?” (minutes later…) Son: “This is GOOD! I can’t believe it’s not I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.” My work is done here.

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

4 years

Work with @TheYiFeng . May be helpful given the looming funding climate: Feng, Y., & Hancock, G. R. ”Oh %&$#!, they cut my funding: Using planned missing data methods to salvage longitudinal research.” Paper, now in press, and R package available here:

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Gregory R. Hancock

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WAITING FOR SOMEONE ON A ZOOM CALL: MINUTE 1… *They* asked for this meeting. Why aren’t they here? MINUTE 2… I can’t believe they didn’t show up yet! The nerve! MINUTE 3… Oh God, *please* don’t show up… MINUTE 4… Damn it! They showed up! Grumble grumble…

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Gregory R. Hancock

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4 years

Today is our EDMS graduate research day — a full day of conference-style methodological research presentations by our amazing students. This is the day each year that my brain — and heart — grow three sizes. It’s the best of who we are as scholars, as community, as family.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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True Confessions: Sometimes I eat an extra egg just so the container has symmetry.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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4 years

This is the first time *ever* that my university and my kids’ school have had a break at the same time. Finally, we can go to DisneyWo—

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Gregory R. Hancock

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Some modeling folks might appreciate this updated reference. 😊

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Gregory R. Hancock

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DEAR CLASSROOM: It was one year ago today that we were last together. I so miss my happiest of happy places, being able to lose myself in the flow of a thousand connected moments that take us all somewhere new each time. I truly hope to see you very soon. 💙

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Gregory R. Hancock

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Every time I read “AIC” one side of my brain says “Akaike Information Criterion” while, at the exact same time, the other side of my brain says “Alice in Chains.” Every. Time. Might be cognitively easier just to use the BIC.

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Gregory R. Hancock

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I just sent a message to someone where my early-morning mistyping of “evaluation specialist” had been corrected to “ejaculation specialist.” It’s going to be a long day.

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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For researchers who know they should use omega reliability instead of Cronbach’s alpha for their instruments, but who don’t do confirmatory factor analysis or use R (and who don’t want to pay a statistician 😉).

(PDF) A Closed-Form Alternative for Estimating Omega Reliability Under Unidimensionality

PDF | As an alternative to Cronbach’s alpha for estimating scale reliability, McDonald’s omega has attracted increased attention within the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

www.researchgate.net

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

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Grocery shopping with my teenager.

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

3 years

Got longitudinal data? Come learn some of the crazy cool things you can do!

Quant Methods at UMD

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@EikoFried 1 strongly disagree 2 still disagree 3 disagree 3.5 mildly disagree 4 pretty sure I disagree 4.5 *barely* disagree 5 huh? 5.5 barely agree, but since you’re pushy 6 agree-ish 6.5 yep, I agree 7 agree, like for sure 8 OK, strongly agree 9 I said, strongly agree! Jeez!!

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Gregory R. Hancock

@GregoryRHancock

5 years

Lego Theory of Statistics: When you first learn statistics it’s like those small Lego kits with instructions to build what someone else has imagined. Eventually, however, statistics should become like a playroom floor covered with random pieces, ready to build what *you* imagine.

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@wesbonifay

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