Thursday Morning, April 9

• Determining the number of components in multilevel latent class analysis.
        Olga Lukociene, Roberta Varriale & Jeroen Vermunt
• Mixed ideal point models for longitudinal multinomial outcomes.
       Mark de Rooij
• Analysing ordinal or censored longitudinal data with non-ignorable dropout.
       Milena Falcaro & Andrew Pickles
• Comparison of statistical methods for "messy" binary repeated measures data.
       H. Stryhn & E. Massaoud
• Hierarchical LC models: An application for the analysis of social exclusion in Europe.
       Elena Pirani
• Crossed random effect models: Brief considerations on an application in psycholinguistics.
       Marco Marelli & Franca Crippa
• Using multi-level structural equation models to explain why survey measurements are cross-cultural.
       Elmar Schlueter & Bart Meuleman
• Multilevel modelling of correlated data to show impact of carotid endarterectomy.
       Katie Harris, Mark S. Gilthorpe, Simon J. Howell & Robert M. West
• Dynamics in work disability reporting using SHARE vignettes.
       Viola Angelini, Danilo Cavapozzi & Omar Paccagnella
• Cognitive change mediates symptom reduction in Cognitive Therapy for Social Phobia.
       Benjamin Boecking, David M. Clark & Anke Ehlers
• Inter- and intraindividual variability in cognitive abilities and student achievement.
       G. Hulur & O. Wilhelm
• Animal emotion & welfare: Modelling 'optimism' in multilevel analyses.
       Richard M.A. Parker, William J. Browne, Oliver H.P. Burman, Elizabeth S. Paul & Mike T. Mendl

Thursday Afternoon, April 9

• Multilevel Mmodels for ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data.
       Donald Hedeker - Invited Speaker
• Prediction in multilevel logistic regression.
       Anders Skrondal & Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
• A multilevel model for networks of action and events over time.
       Wouther de Nooy & Mark Tranmer
• Flexible hockey stick models for dynamic change point estimation.
       J. Kyle Roberts & David Atkins
• Multilevel analyses of valid responses.
       Peter Spreeuwenberg
• Investigating study design features affecting the replicability of global solutions in estimating multilevel mixture models for longitudinal data.
       Paul Dudgeon
• Evaluating multilevel models used for examination subject difficulty.
       John F. Bell
• Growth curves for educational attainments.
       Ian Plewis
• Latent class logistic regression analysis of colorectal cancer data.
       W. J. Harrison, A. Downing, M.S. Gilthorpe, D. Forman & R.M. West
• Analysing sexual prejudice among pupils in Belgium's Multicultural Capital: A multilevel multivariate responses approach.
       Celine Teney
• The role of individuals, households, geographic groups and social networks in social statistics.
       Mark Tranmer, David Steele, Ray Chambers & Robert Clark

Friday Morning, April 10

• Examining the health behaviour of school-aged children in Turkey through a comparison of multilevel regression models and multilevel path models.
       Elif Coker, Gulay Kiroglu & Joop J. Hox
• Assessing the quality of institutions ranking obtained through multilevel linear regression.
       Bruno Arpino & Roberta Varriale
• Modelling marker severity and marker inconsistency over time: A multilevel approach.
       George Leckie
• Multilevel hierarchical general linear models with missing data.
       Yongyun Shin
• Student mobility and the consequences for (modelling) school feedback.
       Heidi Knipprath, Jean Pierre Verhaeghe & Jan Van Damme
• Multi-level modelling of education attaingment data.
       Damon Berridge, Roger Penn & Yu-Jie Chen
• Facing a major organizational change- How can employees be buffered from stress and uncertainty? A multilevel hierarchical linear modeling investigation.
       Sandra Buttigieg
• PREL project: Perception of risk in everyday life.
       Anna Cuxart
• Exploring spatial data of Belgium using a multilevel and a spatial econometrics approach.
       Thomas Vanoutrive
• School effects estimates using multilevel growth curve models accounting for serial correlation.
       Dickson Nkafu, Bieke de Fraine, Patrick Onghena & Jan Van Damme
• School competition and correlated random effects.
       Paul Clarke, Harvey Goldstein, Rich Harris & Fiona Steele
• Multilevel models for survey noncontact and refusal.
       Fiona Steele & Gabriele B. Durrant

Friday Afternoon, April 10

• Fitting multilevel models to the English National Pupil Database to partition family, school and area effects.
       Jon Rasbash & Rebecca Pillinger - Invited Speakers
• Sample size calculations for cross-classified models.
       William Browne, Mousa Golalizadeh & Richard Parker
• Efficiency and sample size estimation in cluster crossover trials.
       Charlotte Rietbergen & Mirjam Morebeek
• Finding optimal designs for linear mixed models with dropout.
       Shirley Ortega Azurduy
• Pseudo cluster randomization evaluated when used in practice.
       R.J. Melis, S. Teerenstra, M.G. Rikkert & G.F. Borm
• Robustness of parameter and standard error estimates against ignoring different within- and between-cluster effects of a subject level covariate in cluster randomized trilas.
       Elly J.J. Dorendijk, Joop J. Hox, Mirjam Moerbeek & Cora J.M. Maas
• Detecting misspecification in the multilevel model using the forward search.
       Neil H. Spencer