about – Jihong Zhang, Ph.D.

Experience

University of Arkansas | Assistant Professor | Jan 2024 - Current
The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Postdoctoral Fellow | Dec 2022 - June 2023
Stanford Research Institute (SRI) | Associate Researcher (Intern) | June 2021 - Jan 2022

Ph.D. | Educational Measurement & Statistics | University of Iowa | Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
M.S. | Educational Psychology & Research | University of Kansas | Aug 2015 - Dec 2019
B.S. | Applied Psychology | Soochow University | Aug 2009 - Dec 2013
B.S. | Law | Soochow University | 2011 - 2013

AI in Educational Measurement and Psychometrics
Bayesian Psychometric Modeling
Psychometric network and Latent variable modeling
Machine Learning and data mining in Education
Diagnostic Classification Models

Teaching & Research

Teaching

ESRM 6990V: Advanced Seminar - Introduction to R

ESRM 64103: Experimental Design In Education

ESRM 64503: Applied Multivariate Analysis

Recent Posts

Psychometric Networks: Community = Clustering?

Sum Score, Factor Score, and Reliability

Data Visualization Using `survey` Package: Survey Data

A tutorial for forester R package

One Template for Quarto Report

Moving My Website to Quarto

A Conversation between R and Python on Data Analysis and Machine Learning

Latent Class Model: Batch Mplus using R on Mac

NSF Grant on Bayesian Cognitive Diagnosis

Web Scraping Academia Institute’s Grant Fundings using R

Power Analysis for Structural Equation Modeling

[Workshop] Creating Academic Blog via R

Gradient Descent Algorithm via julia

Health Care Data Analysis with Apple Watch

[Pre-print] A Model Comparison Approach to Posterior Predictive Model Checks in Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Introduction to Latent Attribute Network Analysis

Which Country own the most Liberty Nobel Prizes? France? Ireland?

Make a Game in R

Introduce gganimate for Psychometric

Lasso Regression Example using glmnet package in R

Visuliaztion of Item Information Curves In R

Brief Introducation to JAGS and R2jags in R

Introduce Descrepancy Measures

How to do Data Cleaning in R

My New Shiny App Cut Score Consistency

Latent Profile Analysis using MCLUST (in R)

CFA Measurement Invariance

Simulation Study of Linking Using Mirt

How to use lavaan package to perform Confirmatory Factor Analysis