Big data in psychology: Special issue of Psychological Methods

I just learned of this special issue inPsychological Methods.  I am looking forward to reading many of the articles as the idea of " big data " analysis in psychology is important.  I am particularly looking forward to reading the article co-authored byJack McArdle on SEM trees.  I am not sure I will understand it, but I know Jack does tremendous work.  He was the first person to introduce me to SEM methods many years ago (during the WJ-R project; he taught me SEM, very gently, with a program called COSAN..and then I graduated to LISREL), and he was an awesome teacher---he could make complex stat methods conceptually clear.  I also then learned of decision-tree methods(CART, MAR) from Jack, and believe they should be used more in psychological research.  This PM issue should be well received by the quantoid readers of this blog. Update -- Psychological Methods - Volume 21, Issue 4 A new issue is available for the followingAPA journal:Psychological Methods Volume 21, Issue 4, (Dec)Big data in psychology: Introduction to the special issue.Page 447-457Harlow, Lisa L.; Oswald, Frederick L.A practical guide to big data research in psychology.Page 458-474Chen, Eric Evan; Wojcik, Sean P.A primer on theory-driven web scraping: Automatic extraction of big data from the Internet for use in psychological research.Page 475-492Landers, Richard N.; Brusso, Robert C.; Cavanaugh, Katelyn J.; Collmus, Andrew B.Mining big data to extract patterns and predi...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - Category: Neuroscience Tags: big data CART decision trees MARS SEM trees statistics Source Type: blogs