Norwegian Psychometrics Gathering 2025

Thanks to everyone who attended the Psychometrics Gathering 2025 and made it such a great event!

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The workshop took place at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo.

Program

Session 1

TimeSpeakerTitle and abstract
10:00Welcome! 
10:05Pablo Garrido, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloTurn to polar: how a change of coordinates extends the analysis of the Mirror Tracing Task
10:25Julien Mayor, Department of Psychology, University of OsloBabyLex-IRT - Estimating infant vocabulary sizes using a Bayesian-inspired Item-Response Theory approach
10:45

Clara Cuevas Ureña, University of Valencia

Paying attention to inattentiveness: Detection and management of Careless Responding

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11:05Njål Foldnes, University of StavangerModel fit evaluation from eigenvalues

Lunch 11:30-12:10

The lunch will be served in the room Psykososialen, in Harald Schjelderups hus.

Session 2

TimeSpeakerTitle and abstract
12:10Martin Jullum, Norwegian Computing CenterLocal Model-Agnostic Methods in XAI
12:30Edvard Grødem, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloQuantifying individual differences in structural brain aging using stochastic dynamical systems
12:50Owen Thomas, Akershus University HospitalUnsupervised Statisticians Ignoring Orders
13:10Håvard R. Karlsen, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Maintaining instruments in two language forms – lessons from the Norwegian Armed Forces

Coffee Break

Session 3

TimeSpeakerTitle and abstract
13:50Esther Ulitzsch, Center for Educational Measurement, University of Oslo

Exploring heterogeneity in temporal dynamics with different extensions of time-varying coefficient models

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14:10Steffen Grønneberg, Department of Economics, BI Norwegian Business SchoolSome new results for sum scores and their correlations from a latent variable perspective
14:30Kristin Gustavson, PROMENTA, University of OsloReconsidering parallel analysis with ordinal data - can we trust the results?
14:50Kjell Slupphaug, Norwegian University of Science and Technologymodsem: An R Package for Estimating Latent Interactions and Quadratic Effects

Coffee break

TimeSpeakerTitle
15:20Björn Andersson, Center for Educational Measurement, University of Oslo

Estimating generalized linear latent variable models with higher-order extended variational approximations

Abstract

15:40Albert Satorra, Department of Economics and Business, University Pompeu FabraRevisiting the likelihood- and Wald- based chi-square statistics in the practice of SEM

Dinner

After the workshop we go for dinner at Kanpai (https://www.kanpai.no/). The table is reserved from 18:00.

Organiser

Øystein Sørensen
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