Other Researchers & Resources

People

• Kevin Grimm, ASU - research in longitudinal methods and data science across many disciplines in the social sciences

• Cady Berkel, ASU - research in dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions across health paradigms with a focus on reducing healthcare disparities

• Paolo Ghisletta, Université de Genève - research in multivariate methods applied to human development across the lifespan

• Jeffrey C. Schank, UC Davis - research in psychology and animal behavior via agent-based models, philosopher of science, and my doctoral adviser; his website also has an extensive directory of researchers using agent-based models throughout the sciences

• Paul Smaldino, UC Merced - research on the cutting edge of the science of science and other collective  human endeavors

• Emilio Ferrer, UC Davis - research in the dynamics of psychological processes

• Mijke Rhemtulla, UC Davis - research in data-analytic models of psychological constructs

• John Miller, Carnegie-Mellon & SFI - leading researcher in social science and complexity and an inspiration to many in my field

Institutions

• Santa Fe Institute - the foremost institution in the study of complex systems

• UC Davis - the university where I got my Ph.D.

• Université de Genève - the institution where I worked as a researcher in Dr. Paolo Ghisletta's lab.

• REACH Institute - my current institution where I work as a postdoctoral fellow in the NIH T32 training program

Software

• Java - most of my programming is done in Java

• MASON - this is basically a library of classes to facilitate the creation of fast, stable agent-based models in Java

• Eclipse - the software I use to develop with in Java (an integrated development environment); many useful features, time-savers, and shortcuts for developing in Java, but also with extensions for other languages. Also, it's open source (FREE!)

• Go - a new, fast language that I am beginning to explore for use when I need something faster than Java

• R - the statistical software package everyone is using; ignore at your peril! All the packages listed below are available from CRAN; the links are to project homepages

  • lavaan - R package for structural equation modeling; this is my go-to solution for SEM and longitudinal growth curve modeling

  • OpenMx - R package for advanced structural equation modeling; when I need something more advanced than is available in lavaan, this is often what I use.

  • ctsem - R package for analyzing continuous-time dynamic and static models in the structural equation modeling framework

  • Stan - Software useful for many things, but I mostly use it for Bayesian estimation. The associated R package is rstan.