Jason Rights

I am a Quantitative Methods Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Psychology and Human Development. I pursue several interrelated programs of research: (1) developing R-squared measures and methods for multilevel models; (2) addressing unappreciated consequences of conflating level-specific effects in analysis of multilevel data; (3) delineating relationships between multilevel models and other commonly used models, such as mixture models; and (4) advancing model selection and comparison methods for latent variable models. To aid researchers in applying my work, I develop software (primarily in R) that is openly available for public use.