Monday Morning, April 16

• Sample size and model stability in multilevel structural equation modeling.
        Tim Reeskens & Bart Meuleman
• Competing estimation approaches for multilevel SEM in small samples: Simulations and empirical approaches.
       A. Robitzsch, O. Kunina, & O. Wilhelm
• The satisfaction of graduates at the University of Florence: A multilevel structural equation model.
       Roberta Varriale
• Have mulitlevel models been misspecified structural equation models all along? The case for formative multilevel models.
       Michale Zyphur
• A comparison of cost-efficiencies of three designs for group randomized trials.
       Mirjam Moerbeek
• Elative efficiency of unequal versus equal cluster sizes in cluster randomized and multicenter trials.
       Gerard van Breukelen, Math Candel, & Martijn Berger
• The robustness of optimal designs for cluster randomized trials and therapy group trials against incorrect intracluster correlation estimates.
       Elly Korendijk, Mirjam Moerbeek, & Cora Maas
• Planning the sample size of a cluster randomized trial with three levels.
       S. Teerenstra, M. Moerbeek, T. van Achterberg, B.J. Pelzer, & G. F. Borm

Monday Afternoon, April 16

• Effect sizes and power analysis.
       J. Kyle Roberts
• Selection bias in linear mixed models.
       Leonardo Grilli & Carla Rampichini
• Moderation of student assignment marks using MLM.
       R.M. West & M. S. Gilthorpe
• Multilevel analyses of the relationships of strain reducing effects of social environmnet on unit performance in hospital practice.
       Sandra Buttigieg
• Avoiding data snooping in multilevel and mixed effects models.
       David Afshartous & Michael Wolf
• Sample size calculations in multilevel modeling.
       Mousa Golalizadeh & William Browne
• Interpretation of variance parameters in multilevel models for count data.
       Henrik Stryhn
• Who has no financial assets among 50+ in Italy? Evidence from SHARE.
       Omar Paccagnella
• The influence of social capital on self-rated perceptions of health in Canada.
       M. Reza Nakhaie & Bradley A. Corbett
• New vistas on the income inequality-health debate: The case of Canada's aborigonal reserve population.
       Nicholas D. Spence
• Community variations in crime clearance. A multilevel analysis with comments on assessing police performance.
       Paul-Philippe Pare, Richard Felson, & Marc Ouimet
• Multilevel structural equation modeling of perceived academicion satisfaction for Turkish university students.
       Gulhayat Simsek & Farma Noyan

Tuesday Morning, April 17

• How many countries are needed for multilevel SEM? A simulation study.
       Bart Meuleman, Tim Reeskens, & Jaak Billiet
• The effect of estimation method and sample size on the accuracy of multilevel SEM.
       Joop Hox, Cora Maas, & Matthieu Brinkhuis
• The social production of happiness.
       Jon Fahlander
• A comparison of posterior predictive assessment methods for assessing model fin in Bayesian multilevel logistic regression models with application to a veterinary epidemiological problem.
       Martin Green & William Browne
• Endogeneity issues in multilevel linear models.
       Leonardo Grilli & Carla Rampichini
• Handling endogeneity by a multivariate response model: Methodological challenges in examining school and area effects on student attainment.
       Antony Fielding & Fiona Steele
• Estimating latent state-trait theory coefficients with random effects models.
       Wolfgang A. Rauch & Helfried Moosbrugger
• Models of catastrophe theory as hierarchical multilevel models: Example of converging ideas.
       Olga Mitina

Tuesday Afternoon, April 17

• Generalized multilevel structural equation modeling.
       Anders Skrondal
• Using SMCMC for normal response multilevel models.
       William Browne
• An application of multilevel modeling to meta-analysis and comparison with traditional approaches.
       Alison J. O'Mara & Herbert W. Marsh
• The interaction of individual and institutional factors in the evolution of public policies. The case of education in Europe.
       Clara Riba & Anna Cuxart
• Contextual effects on the dynamics of claiming free school meals.
       Ian Plewis
• Multilevel growth mixture models for classifying group-level observations.
       Gregory Palardy & Jeroen Vermunt
• Cohort characteristics and crime. A cross-national age-period-cohort analysis to estimate the impact of cohort size on homicide victimization.
       Johna van Wilsem
• Use of prior or concurrent measures of educational attainment when studying comparability of examinations using multilevel models.
       Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro
• The effects of within-category heterogeneity of categorical variables in multilevel models.
       John F. Bell
• The impact of missing data on cross-classification random effects models.
       Meltem Alemdar & Carolyn Furlow
• Altered faith, altered party: The short-term partisan consequences of religiosity in the United States.
       Thomas J. Scotto
• Why are local unemployment rates weak determinants of U.S. Internal Migration?
       Edmund J. Zolnik & George Mason