In Anticipation of ICHPS ... A Conversation with Long-Term Excellence Award Winner Don Hedeker

摘要

Juned: Your degree is in quantitative psychology from The University of Chicago. Could you tell us a little bit about the Department of Behavioral Sciences Committee on Research Methodology and Quantitative Psychology, which granted your degree? Don: It was a small committee within psychology. Darrell Bock taught courses on multivariate statistics, on loglinear modeling, on item response theory. And Don Fiske taught courses on research methodology-designing studies, evaluation research-so I took courses like that. Steve Shevell taught a class on mathematical psychology, and also one on experimental design. But there weren't that many, because it was a small group, so we were encouraged to take classes in statistics, in econometrics, in other areas. And so I took a lot of courses, actually, in statistics at that time.