Contact Information
725 S. Wright St.
M/C 374
Champaign, IL 61820
Research Areas
Research Interests
Psychometric models
Latent class models
Large-scale testing and assessment
Statistical computing
Education
PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, 2006
BS, Economics, Bowling Green State University, 2001
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Educational Psychology
External Links
Recent Publications
Balamuta, J. J., & Culpepper, S. A. (2022). Exploratory Restricted Latent Class Models with Monotonicity Requirements under PÒLYA–GAMMA Data Augmentation. Psychometrika, 87(3), 903-945. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-021-09815-9
Man, A. X., & Culpepper, S. A. (2022). A Mode-Jumping Algorithm for Bayesian Factor Analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 117(537), 277-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2020.1773833
Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Culpepper, S. A., & Chen, Y. (2021). Inferring the Number of Attributes for the Exploratory DINA Model. Psychometrika, 86(1), 30-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-021-09750-9
Culpepper, S. A., & Balamuta, J. J. (Accepted/In press). Inferring Latent Structure in Polytomous Data with a Higher-Order Diagnostic Model. Multivariate Behavioral Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2021.1985949
McCaffrey, D. F., & Culpepper, S. A. (2021). Introduction to JEBS Special Issue on NAEP Linked Aggregate Scores. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 46(2), 135-137. https://doi.org/10.3102/10769986211001480