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The animated measurement error variance uncertainty

This is the flash animation I presented to the lay audience at my PhD defense. It explains chapter 4 of my dissertation. Click on the colored rectangles to start. Click on the background to continue after the animation stops.

I study measurement error in survey questions. I recently obtained my PhD at the IOPS, through Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

I live in Barcelona, where I work for the ESS.

Publications

W. E. Saris, D. L. Oberski, M. Révilla, D. Zavala Rojas, L. Lilleoja, I. Gallhofer and T. Gruner (2012). "Final report about the project JRA3 as part of ESS Infrastructure (SQP 2002-2011)" European Social Survey.
D. L. Oberski, W. K. Weber and M. Révilla (2012). "The effect of individual characteristics on reports of socially desirable attitudes towards immigration" in: Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences: Festschrift for Peter Schmidt. S. Salzborn, E. Davidov and J. Reinecke (eds.). Springer. Preprint (pdf, 565.0KB)
D. L. Oberski (2012). "Comparability of survey measurements" in: Handbook of Survey Methodology in Social Sciences. L. Gideon (eds.). Springer. Preprint (pdf, 591.0KB)
D. L. Oberski and A. Satorra (2012). "Measurement error models with uncertainty about the error variance" Structural Equation Modeling. Taylor & Francis. Preprint (pdf, 213.0KB)
A. Gallego and D. L. Oberski (2011). "Personality and Political Participation: The Mediation Hypothesis " Political Behavior. Springer.
D. L. Oberski (2011). "Measurement error in comparative surveys" Tilburg University.
D. L. Oberski (2010). "Joint estimation of survey error components in multivariate statistics" Under review. . TSE paper (pdf, 277.0KB)
D. L. Oberski, W. E. Saris and J. A. P. Hagenaars (2009). "Multitrait-multimethod models with fewer assumptions: the latent class MTMM model" (forthcoming article). . Full paper: Latent class MTMM (pdf, 1452.0KB)
D. L. Oberski, J. A. P. Hagenaars and W. E. Saris (2008). "Categorization Errors and Differences in the Quality of Questions Across Countries" in: Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC). T. D. Johnson and M. Braun (eds.). New York: Wiley and Sons, Ltd.. Full paper: berlin (pdf, 554.0KB)
D. L. Oberski (2008). "Self-selection bias versus nonresponse bias in the Perceptions of Mobility survey: a comparison using multiple imputation" Voorburg: The Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP). SCP report (pdf, 898.0KB)
L. Coromina Soler, W. E. Saris and D. L. Oberski (2008). "The Quality of the Measurement of Interest in the Political Issues in the Media in the ESS" ASK Research & Methods. Polish Academy of Sciences. Full paper: IPIM (pdf, 1076.0KB)
D. L. Oberski and W. E. Saris (2007). "Political web surveys" in: Access Panels and Online Research, Panacea or Pitfall?. I. Stoop and M. Wittenberg (eds.). Amsterdam, Aksant Academic Publishers. Essay (doc, 79.0KB)
D. L. Oberski, W. E. Saris and J. A. P. Hagenaars (2007). "Why are there differences in measurement error across countries?" in: Measuring meaningful Data in Social Research. G. Loosveldt, M. Swyngedouw and B. Cambré (eds.). Leuven: Acco. Full paper: differences in measurement error (doc, 234.0KB)

Programs

D. L. Oberski (2010). "AutoMTMM"
A collection of scripts that extract the results from many LISREL MTMM analyses and store them in a relational database. Calculates standard errors and covariances of reliability and validity coefficients.
D. L. Oberski (2009). "Jrule for Mplus"
A power analysis program that operates on Mplus output. The GUI provides plots and advanced options for looking at possible misspecifications in the model.
D. L. Oberski, S. Kuipers and W. E. Saris (2007). "SQP: Survey Quality Predictor"
A program to code characteristics of survey questions and predict their reliability and internal validity from those characteristics.

Presentations

D. L. Oberski (2011). "Predicting the quality of a survey question from its design characteristics" presentation given at the Invited talk conference in Census Bureau, MD. Slides (pdf, 4979.0KB)
D. L. Oberski (2011). "Predicting the quality of a survey question from its design characteristics: SQP" presentation given at the NCHS, Centers for Disease Control conference in Hyattsville, MD. NCHS Slides + handouts (zip, 6085.0KB)
D. L. Oberski (2011). "Predicting the quality of survey questions " presentation given at the IAB-Colloquium conference in Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nuernberg, Germany. Nurnberg (pdf, 1746.0KB)
D. L. Oberski and W. E. Saris (2010). "SQP: prediction of measurement quality based on a meta-analysis of experiments [only the title is in Dutch]" presentation given at the Symposium over vragenlijsten in survey-onderzoek op 27 mei 2009‎ conference in Statistics Netherlands (CBS), The Hague. sqp-npso (pdf, 11674.0KB)
D. L. Oberski (2010). "Detection of misspecifications in Mplus" presentation given at the First Mplus User meeting conference in Utrecht. Presentation: JruleMplus in Utrecht (pdf, 1957.0KB)
D. L. Oberski, J. A. P. Hagenaars and W. E. Saris (2010). "Latent class MTMM models" presentation given at the Valedictory Conference for Jacques Hagenaars conference in Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Presentation for Jacques (pdf, 4145.0KB)
D. L. Oberski and W. E. Saris (2009). "Quality control of cross-national translations by coding of the formal characteristics of the questions" presentation given at the ESS National Coordinator's meeting November 2009 conference in Mannheim, Germany. ESS Proposal to use SQP coding (pdf, 5886.0KB)
D. L. Oberski (2009). "Jrule for Mplus" presentation given at the ESRA2009 conference in Warsaw.
D. L. Oberski, W. E. Saris and J. A. P. Hagenaars (2008). "Unobserved differences in the meaning and measurement of generalised political trust" presentation given at the 7th RC33 International Conference on Social Science Methodology conference in Campus di Monte Sant’Angelo, Università di Napoli “Federico II” (Italy).
D. L. Oberski (2008). "An assessment of cross‐cultural measurement of political trust using specialized software" presentation given at the 7th RC33 International Conference on Social Science Methodology conference in Campus di Monte Sant’Angelo, Università di Napoli “Federico II” (Italy).
D. L. Oberski and W. E. Saris (2008). "Social indicators in a comparative perspective" presentation given at the 1st ISA forum of Sociology conference in In session Comparative Social Indicators for Public Policies – Europe. Chair: Wolfgang Glatzer. Barcelona.
D. L. Oberski, J. A. P. Hagenaars and W. E. Saris (2008). "Discretization, unequal intervals, non-linearity and non-normality in Multitrait Multimethod models: a latent class approach" presentation given at the International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC) conference in Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany.
D. L. Oberski, W. E. Saris and J. A. P. Hagenaars (2008). "Categorization Error and Differences in the Quality of Questions across Countries" presentation given at the International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC) conference in Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany.
D. L. Oberski (2008). "A different way of analysing complex multiple group models like split ballot MTMM with an application to political trust" presentation given at the Composite Scores miniconference conference in Barcelona.
D. L. Oberski (2007). "Categorisation effects as an explanation for differences in the measurement characteristics of survey questions across countries" presentation given at the 17th IOPS Winter conference conference in Netherlands.
D. L. Oberski (2007). "Survey Quality Predictor (SQP)" presentation given at the 2nd ESRA conference conference in Prague.
W. E. Saris (2007). "Access Panels: a Blessing or a Serious Threat to Political Processes?" presentation given at the 2nd ESRA conference conference in Prague.