Using R for personality research

Summer School 11  | 2014, August 23-28 | Bertinoro, Italy

Information

Featured topics

• Using R for personality research

Background

• R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation calculation and graphical display that is particularly useful for psychological and personality scientists. The aim of this summer school is to make participants familiar with the R package as it can be used for substantive research questions in personality psychology. The summer school will start from the basic notions of R including simple standard descriptive statistics graphical approaches and basic statistical techniques and then move to more advanced issues including classic and IRT psychometric approaches multilevel modeling structural equation modeling social interactions model and data simulation. Participants will be encouraged to bring their data for analyses under the supervision of faculty members.

Teaching Faculty

• William Revelle (Northwestern University, USA)
• Yves Roseel (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Felix Schönbrodt (University of Munich, Germany)
• Ryne A. Sherman (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
• Giulio Costantini (Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• Albrecht Küfner (FactWorks, Berlin, Germany)

Organizers

• William Revelle
• Marco Perugini

Sponsors

• European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
• Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP)
• The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)