About Us
Patrick J. Curran, Ph.D.
I am a Professor in the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am dedicated to the teaching and dissemination of advanced quantitative methods and over the past decade have taught a large number of workshops both nationally and internationally on multilevel modeling, latent curve analysis, longitudinal data analysis, and general linear modeling. I draw upon my experiences from my own program of research to help guide and inform my teaching. My research is primarily focused on the development and evaluation of statistical models of change over time, particularly as applied to studies of adolescent substance use. I have published over 70 scientific papers and chapters and have co-authored a text book on latent curve analysis. I have served as Associate Editor for Psychological Methods and have been on the editorial boards of seven scientific journals as well as a member of multiple grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health. My academic web page is located here.
Daniel J. Bauer, Ph.D.
I am an Associate Professor in the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have developed and taught dozens of workshops on advanced statistical modeling techniques, including multilevel modeling and cluster analysis/mixture modeling, both independently and in partnership with the SAS Institute. Students often comment that they appreciate my use of real-world examples to communicate the underlying concepts and structure of advanced modeling techniques, and my extensive documentation of computer code for model fitting. My teaching is informed both by my background in developmental psychology, concerned with the development of problem and health-related behaviors over childhood and adolescence, and my research in quantitative psychology, which focuses on the improved modeling of individual differences in change over time. I have published over 40 scientific papers and chapters, I have served on the editorial boards of Psychological Methods, Psychological Assessment, and Multivariate Behavioral Research, and I have reviewed grants for both the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Educational Sciences. I was honored to have recently received the 2009 Early Career Award conferred by the American Psychological Association. My academic web page is located here.