Research Professor in the College of Nursing at Wayne State University
About
Thomas N. Templin, PhD, is a research professor in the Office of Health Research at Wayne State University (WSU) College of Nursing where he has been on the faculty since receiving his doctorate in cognitive psychology (WSU, 1994). For many years he was a supported investigator with the NIH funded Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research. He has made many presentations at professional meetings on measurement issues in racial/ethnic minorities, psychometrics, and structural equation modeling.
Current Work:
Dr. Templin pioneered the development of methodologies for coding specific causal hypothesis when the usual contrasts are not appropriate. For example, when treatment participation is self-selected so that different participants receive a different number of treatment sessions. With this method it is possible to code treatment received, say session attendance, in such a way so that the difference in slope (pre- vs. post-treatment) represents the improvement in outcome for each unit of treatment received. This has an efficacy interpretation and is identical to the usual pre- vs. post-treatment slope difference when there is no variation in dose received. This method is applicable to longitudinal structural equation models, multilevel models, and ordinary regression.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Structual equation modeling, statistics, reserach design, psychometrics, correlated data, multilevel models
