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Lawrence J. Hubert

Division: Quantitative

Lyle H. Lanier Professor of Psychology, Professor of Statistics and Educational Psychology of Psychology

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Contact Information:

  • Address:
    433 Psychology Bldg.
    603 E. Daniel Street
    M/C 716
    Champaign, IL 61820
  • Telephone: (217)333-6593

Research Description

Data analysis methods in psychology and the behavioral sciences generally with particular emphasis on representation techniques; strategies of combinatorial data analysis including exploratory optimization approaches and confirmatory nonparametric methods.

Education

  • Ph.D. from Stanford University

Webpages

Courses

  • Psychology 406: Statistical Methods I
  • Psychology 407: Statistical Methods II
  • Psychology 594: Multivariate Analysis in Psychology and Education

Recent Publications

Hubert, L. J., Arabie, P., & Meulman, J. (2001). Combinatorial data analysis: Optimization by dynamic programming. Philadelphia: SIAM (177 pp.).

Hubert, L. J., Arabie, P., & Meulman, J. (2001). Modeling dissimilarity: Generalizing ultrametric and additive tree representations. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 54, 103-123.

Hubert, L. J., Arabie, P., & Meulman, J. (2002). Linear unidimensional scaling in the L_{2}-norm: Basic optimization methods using MATLAB. Journal of Classification, 19, 303-328.

Hubert, L. J., Arabie, P., & Meulman, J. (2006). The structural representation of proximity matrices with MATLAB. Philadelphia: SIAM (325 pp.).

Hubert, L. J., Meulman, J., & Heiser, W. (2000). Two purposes for matrix factorization: A historical appraisal. SIAM Review, 42, 68--82.