Ryne Estabrook Ph.D. Student University of Virginia Curriculum Vitae
Affiliations Courses Research Presentations Instructional Presentations Acknowledgements Contact

Ryne Estabrook

Ph.D. Student

University of Virginia

Curriculum Vitae

Affiliations Courses Research Presentations Instructional Presentations Acknowledgements Contact

I am a fifth-year graduate student in the quantitative psychology program at the University of Virginia, working with Dr. John Nesselroade. I received my M.A in quantitative psychology from the University of Virginia in 2007, and my B.S. in psychology from Arizona State University in 2005. My research focuses on intraindividual variability and lifespan development, including the study of interindividual differences in intraindividual variability, interindividual differences in change and development, alternative approaches to factorial invariance and terminal change. My methodological training focuses on structural equation modeling, but I've also carried out work in mixed-effect modeling, survival analysis, simulation studies and Bayesian methods. I'd be happy to answer questions about my substantive research, methodological and statistical work, or my curriculum vitae.

Affiliations

Member of the Center for Developmental and Health Research Methodology (CDHRM), which focuses on the development of methodological and statistical techniques for social and behavioral sciences.

Fellow in the LIFE program, an international and multidisciplinary program that focuses on studying lifespan development over evolutionary and ontogenetic time.

Part of the OpenMx Development Team, which is developing open-source statistical software for structural equation and related multivariate modeling. My primary responsibilities are with the documentation team and alpha testing, developing tests, demos, example code and documentation for the project.

Courses

PSYC 771. I co-taught the first semester of the graduate statistics sequence for the UVa Department of Psychology, along with Tim Brick in Fall 2008. Those with access to UVa Collab can access course materials here.

Here are a few sample class presentations, spanning most of the range of the class. Please contact me if you'd like additional course materials.

Normal Distribution, or "What Gauss Around, Comes Around". Class 4 of 27, covering probability and cumulative density functions, the central limit theorem, and the normal distribution.

Bivariate Relationships, Covariance, and Correlation, or "r You Gonna ρ My Way?". Class 11 of 27, covering covariance, r_xy and R², and Fisher's z transformation.

Residual Checks, Outliers, and Transformations, or "More Than Meets The (i)". Class 24 of 27, covering residual diagnostics, transformations and centering.

Research Presentations

I've had the opportunity to give a number of research presentations through the Design and Data Analysis colloquium (DADA), the CDHRM meetings, and various professional conferences. A sample of those presentations is presented below. Please contact me and let me know if you use the information presented here.

Terminal Change in Cognition, Blood Pressure, & Survival Models. Presented at Design and Data Analysis in September of 2008. Includes and introduction to survival analysis.

New Approaches to Factorial Invariance . Presented at Design and Data Analysis in April of 2008.

Terminal Decline and Ergodicity in Life Satisfaction. Presented at Design and Data Analysis in September of 2007.

Reliability of Individual Standard Deviations. Presented at the Gerontological Society of America meeting in November of 2006. An alternate version was presented at the Huskey Research competition at UVa in March of 2008.

Instructional Presentations

I've also given a number of instructional presentations outside of coursework, focusing on overviews of statstical concepts and computing. Please contact me and let me know if you use the information presented here.

General Statistics

Overview of Regression and ANOVA. Presented at Graduate Representation Committee's Summer Workshop Series in July of 2009.

Overview of Structural Equation Modeling. Presented at Graduate Representation Committee's Summer Workshop Series in July of 2009. A previous version was presented at the Lifespan Development Seminar in March of 2009.

Overview of Survival Analysis. Presented at Graduate Representation Committee's Summer Workshop Series in August of 2009.

Mixed and Multilevel Modeling. Presented at Lifespan Development Seminar in March of 2009.

Statistical Programming

Introduction to Mplus. Presented at Design and Data Analysis in February of 2009.

Introduction to SAS. Presented at CDHRM in December of 2007. This talk included several accompanying SAS scripts for LaTeX output using the ODS, all versions of those found at http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/odsmarkup/latex.html.

Acknowledgements

I also wish to acknowledge some of my coauthors, collaborators, lab members and mentors for all of their hard work and dedication. In alphabetical order: Steven Boker, Tim Brick, Ryan Bowles, Merrill (Pete) Elias, Monica Erbacher, Denis Gerstorf, Kevin Grimm, Mike Hunter, Ulman Lindenberger, Darwin Linder (Advisor: B.S.), John Nesselroade (Advisor, M.A. and Ph.D.), Nilam Ram, Mike Robbins, Tim Salthouse, Jeff Spies, Lijuan (Peggy) Wang , Zhiyong (Johnny) Zhang .

Contact

Ryne Estabrook
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
Gilmer Hall Room 102
PO BOX 400400
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400
e-mail: ryne@virginia.edu