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| SQAB 2004 Tutorial: Fitting Equations to Data |
| Saturday, May 29, 2004 |
| 3:00 PM–3:50 PM |
| Commonwealth |
| Domain: Applied Research |
| Chair: Randolph C. Grace (University of Canterbury) |
| Presenting Authors: : JACK J. MCDOWELL (Emory University) |
| Abstract: Why fit equations to data? Problems and pitfalls in statistical fitting procedures including how to identify and deal with degenerate parameters, how to analyze residuals, how to simultaneously fit to several sources of variance, and how to choose among competing equations. |
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| JACK J. MCDOWELL (Emory University) |
 Jack McDowell received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Howard Rachlin was his major professor and dissertation supervisor. Dr. McDowell was trained as a clinical psychologist but his principal research interests are in basic behavior analysis. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at Emory University where he recently completed a five-year term as the director of Emory’s Clinical Psychology Training Program. Dr. McDowell’s principal research focus has been the mathematical description of operant behavior. He recently developed a computational model of behavioral selection by consequences. In 25 years of mathematical research, Dr. McDowell has encountered, and learned to deal with, most of the logical and statistical problems that arise when comparing equations to data in behavior analysis. |
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