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Bengt O. Muthén (Ph.D., Statistics, Uppsala University). Dr. Muthén
is Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
at UCLA. He was the 1988-89 President of the Psychometric Society and the 2011 recipient of the Psychometric Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Muthén is one of the developers of the Mplus computer program, which implements many of his statistical procedures.
Dr. Muthén's research interests focus on the development of applied
statistical methodology in areas of education and public health. Education
applications concern achievement development while public health applications
involve developmental studies in epidemiology and psychology. Methodological
areas include latent variable modeling, analysis of individual differences
in longitudinal data, preventive intervention studies, analysis of categorical
data, multilevel modeling, and the development of statistical software. |
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