posts

Lectures

ESRM 64503: Applied Multivariate Analysis

Fall 2024, Monday, 5:00-7:45PM, Classroom GRAD 0210, 2024/8/19 - 2024/12/5

Lecture

The online syllabus at the address provided above will always have the most up-to-date information. Multivariate statistical procedures as applied to educational research…

Jul 21, 2024

Jihong Zhang

ESRM 6553: Advanced Multivariate Analysis

Spring 2024, Mondays, 5:00-7:45PM, Classroom GRAD 0229

Lecture

This course offers an in-depth exploration of multivariate statistics within the context of Bayesian inferences. Bayesian statistics have been widely used in public health…

Jan 13, 2024

Jihong Zhang

Sum Score, Factor Score, and Reliability

Scoring

Reliability

CTT

Factor Analysis

BibTeX citation:

@online{zhang2024,
  author = {Zhang, Jihong},
  title = {Sum {Score,} {Factor} {Score,} and {Reliability}},
  date = {2024-03-12},
  url =…

Mar 12, 2024

Jihong Zhang

12 min

Customize font family of visual mode in Rstudio and in Zotero

Tutorial

Theme

Visual model of quarto and rmarkdown is very easy to use. Though users can change font family for Source mode in Rstudio by Options menu, there is no direct way change font…

Feb 10, 2024

Jihong Zhang

2 min

How to set up High Performance Computing

AHPCC from University of Arkansas

Tutorial

AHPCC

HPC

BibTeX citation:

@online{zhang2024,
  author = {Zhang, Jihong},
  title = {How to Set up {High} {Performance} {Computing}},
  date = {2024-01-14},
  url =…

Jan 14, 2024

Jihong Zhang

25 min

Data visualization for survey data

blog

ggplot2

Many tutorials online are about general data visualization. This post aims to showcase some tricks for survey data

Jul 4, 2023

Jihong Zhang

6 min

A tutorial for forester R package

tutorial

package

Jun 28, 2023

Jihong Zhang

2 min

One Template for Quarto Report

tutorial

quarto

A template used for academic reporting

Jun 27, 2023

Jihong Zhang

2 min

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

blog

PyTorch

Deep Learning

Jun 20, 2023

Jihong Zhang

8 min

Latent Class Model: Batch Mplus using R on Mac

Latent Class

blog

Jun 10, 2023

Jihong Zhang

11 min

Dissertation Defence

TITLE: A novel method for model selection in Bayesian Diagnostic Classification Modeling

Oct 23, 2022

Jihong Zhang

22 min

NSF Grant on Bayesian Cognitive Diagnosis

Data visualization using ggplot2

May 20, 2022

Jihong Zhang

3 min

Web Scraping Academia Institute’s Grant Fundings using R

blog

Web Scrapping

How to use R for web scrapping

May 12, 2022

Jihong Zhang

4 min

Power Analysis for Structural Equation Modeling

Rshiny

Webpower

Lavaan

blog

Tutorial

Showcase current software used for power analysis of Structural Equation Modeling

Apr 29, 2022

Jihong Zhang

6 min

[Workshop] Creating Academic Blog via R

This post reviews the procedure of creating Github Pages Website using distill package and Github Pages in a step-to-step way.

Github

Rstudio

Workshop

Apr 24, 2022

Jihong Zhang

3 min

Gradient Descent Algorithm via julia

This tutorial illustrate how to use julia to conduct a gradient descent algorithm

Tutorial

Algorithm

julia

32 rows × 12 columns (omitted printing of 4 columns)

Aug 30, 2021

Jihong Zhang

11 min

Health Care Data Analysis with Apple Watch

blog

health

Jul 6, 2021

Jihong Zhang

3 min

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

Jan 31, 2021

Jihong

2 min

Study Notes: gt package and format table

May 25, 2020

Jihong

3 min

Introduction to Latent Attribute Network Analysis

blog

Network

DCM

Oct 20, 2019

Jihong Zhang

2 min

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

visualization

blog

ggplot2

May 20, 2019

Jihong Zhang

4 min

Introduce gganimate for Psychometric

Tutorial

Feb 22, 2019

Jihong

1 min

Lasso Regression Example using glmnet package in R

manual

Feb 19, 2019

Jihong Zhang

3 min

Visuliaztion of Item Information Curves In R

blog

Jan 10, 2019

Jihong

1 min

Brief Introducation to JAGS and R2jags in R

Manual

Jags

MCMC

Sep 12, 2018

Jihong Zhang

4 min

Introduce Descrepancy Measures

Sep 11, 2018

Jihong

2 min

How to do Data Cleaning in R

blog

tidyverse

Sep 4, 2018

Jihong Zhang

3 min

My New Shiny App Cut Score Consistency

Shiny

Mar 10, 2018

Jihong Zhang

1 min

Latent Profile Analysis using MCLUST (in R)

Clustering

Latent Class

Nov 23, 2017

Jihong Zhang

6 min

CFA Measurement Invariance

One example from Major Depression Criteria

SEM

lavaan

Nov 12, 2017

Jihong Zhang

13 min

Simulation Study of Linking Using Mirt

mirt

linking

Nov 10, 2017

Jihong Zhang

6 min

How to use lavaan package to perform Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Manual

lavaan

Nov 8, 2017

Jihong Zhang

14 min

Presentations

Lighting Presentation: Introduce Psychological Network Models

COEHP Luncheon Academic Seminar Series (CLASS) sessions, College Council

Presentation

Network Analysis

Eating Disorders

Oct 23, 2024

Jihong Zhang*, Ph.D

Presentation: Group comparison of longitudinal network analysis: An example of eating disorder psychopathology

Modern Method Modeling 2024

Presentation

Network Analysis

Eating Disorders

Jun 26, 2024

Jihong Zhang*, Ph.D; Jinbo He, Ph.D

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Categories

Lectures

ESRM 64503: Applied Multivariate Analysis

ESRM 6553: Advanced Multivariate Analysis

Posts

Sum Score, Factor Score, and Reliability

Customize font family of visual mode in Rstudio and in Zotero

How to set up High Performance Computing

Data visualization for 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

Dissertation Defence

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

Study Notes: gt package and format table

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

Presentations

Lighting Presentation: Introduce Psychological Network Models

Presentation: Group comparison of longitudinal network analysis: An example of eating disorder psychopathology