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Patrick J. Curran is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a significant focus on subfields that include experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, molecular biology, statistics and probability, and general health professions.

The scientist has contributed to various research topics prominently centered on mental health research, advanced causal inference techniques, healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, COVID-19 and mental health, epigenetics and DNA methylation, as well as COVID-19 epidemiological studies and healthcare impacts.

Patrick J. Curran has authored several papers, including:

  • "Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Promote Immunosuppression by Inducing ROS-Generating Monocytic MDSCs in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma" (2020), published in Cancer Immunology Research
  • "Life-course trajectories of body mass index from adolescence to old age: Racial and educational disparities" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a geospatial and statistical analysis in Aden governorate, Yemen" (2021), published in BMJ Global Health
  • "Psychometric models for scoring multiple reporter assessments: Applications to integrative data analysis in prevention science and beyond" (2020), published in International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • "The Challenge of Modeling Co-Developmental Processes over Time" (2021), published in Child Development Perspectives

The scientist has frequently collaborated with a number of coauthors, notably Andrea M. Hussong, Daniel J. Bauer, Laurie Chassin, Robert A. Zucker, and Jeffrey Sonis.

Research published by Patrick J. Curran has appeared predominantly in venues such as UNC Libraries, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Cancer Immunology Research, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The robustness of test statistics to nonnormality and specification error in confirmatory factor analysis.

    Patrick J. Curran;Stephen G. West;John F. Finch

  • Structural equation models with nonnormal variables: Problems and remedies.

    Stephen G. West;John F. Finch;Patrick J. Curran

  • Computational Tools for Probing Interactions in Multiple Linear Regression, Multilevel Modeling, and Latent Curve Analysis.

    Kristopher J. Preacher;Patrick J. Curran;Daniel J. Bauer

  • An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data.

    David B. Flora;Patrick J. Curran

  • Latent curve models : a structural equation perspective

    Kenneth A. Bollen;Patrick J. Curran

  • The disaggregation of within-person and between-person effects in longitudinal models of change.

    Patrick J. Curran;Daniel J. Bauer

  • Probing Interactions in Fixed and Multilevel Regression: Inferential and Graphical Techniques

    Daniel J. Bauer;Patrick J. Curran

  • Twelve Frequently Asked Questions about Growth Curve Modeling.

    Patrick J. Curran;Khawla Obeidat;Diane Losardo

  • Structural equation models with non-normal variables: Problems and remedies

    SG West;JF Finch;PJ Curran

  • Distributional assumptions of growth mixture models: implications for overextraction of latent trajectory classes.

    Daniel J. Bauer;Patrick J. Curran

  • General Longitudinal Modeling of Individual Differences in Experimental Designs: A Latent Variable Framework for Analysis and Power Estimation

    Bengt O. Muthén;Patrick J. Curran

  • Integrative data analysis: the simultaneous analysis of multiple data sets.

    Patrick J. Curran;Andrea M. Hussong

  • Relation of parental alcoholism to early adolescent substance use: A test of three mediating mechanisms.

    Laurie Chassin;David R. Pillow;Patrick J. Curran;Brooke S.G. Molina

  • Improper Solutions in Structural Equation Models Causes, Consequences, and Strategies

    Feinian Chen;Kenneth A. Bollen;Pamela Paxton;Patrick J. Curran

  • The integration of continuous and discrete latent variable models: potential problems and promising opportunities.

    Daniel J. Bauer;Patrick J. Curran

  • The relation between adolescent alcohol use and peer alcohol use: A longitudinal random coefficients model.

    Patrick J. Curran;Eric Stice;Laurie Chassin

  • Autoregressive Latent Trajectory (ALT) Models A Synthesis of Two Traditions

    Kenneth A. Bollen;Patrick J. Curran

  • The relation of parent alcoholism to adolescent substance use: A longitudinal follow-up study.

    Laurie Chassin;Patrick J. Curran;Andrea M. Hussong;Craig R. Colder

  • The separation of between-person and within-person components of individual change over time: a latent curve model with structured residuals.

    Patrick J. Curran;Andrea L. Howard;Sierra A. Bainter;Stephanie T. Lane

  • Have Multilevel Models Been Structural Equation Models All Along

    Patrick J. Curran

  • The role of coding time in estimating and interpreting growth curve models.

    Jeremy C. Biesanz;Natalia Deeb-Sossa;Alison A. Papadakis;Kenneth A. Bollen

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea M. Hussong
Andrea M. Hussong University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Laurie Chassin
Laurie Chassin Arizona State University
Robert A. Zucker
Robert A. Zucker University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael T. Willoughby
Michael T. Willoughby RTI International
Stephen G. West
Stephen G. West Arizona State University
David B. Flora
David B. Flora York University
Kenneth J. Sher
Kenneth J. Sher University of Missouri
Craig R. Colder
Craig R. Colder University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Elizabeth M. Gnagy
Elizabeth M. Gnagy Florida International University
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University

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