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Biography
Research topic
Duco’s PhD project with Rens focusses on providing a solution to small data problems in latent growth curve models. With few data points, it can be impossible to estimate the model of interest. Yet asking a different (simplified) question the data can answer may not be desirable. The PhD project aims to elicit information from for instance, experts-by-experience, researchers and clinicians. The elicited information from the experts can be used as prior information in a Bayesian analysis. By incorporating this prior knowledge in the analysis, a model of interest can be fitted to provide an answer to the original research question.
Funding
The PhD project is part of the VIDI project of Rens van de Schoot (NWO-VIDI-452-14-006).