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  <title>[Forthcoming] Cluster-specific estimands: Identification and uncertainty in multilevel analysis</title>
  <dc:creator>Jee-Seon Kim</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Graham W. Buhrman</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Xiangyi Liao</dc:creator>
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<p><em>This paper will be published in the upcoming proceedings of the 90th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society</em></p>



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  <category>Multilevel Modeling</category>
  <category>HTE</category>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>[Forthcoming] Adaptive shrinkage with Student’s t: Limited gains over Gaussian hierarchical linear models</title>
  <dc:creator>Graham W. Buhrman</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Jee-Seon Kim</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Weicong Lyu</dc:creator>
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<p><em>This paper will be published in the upcoming proceedings of the 90th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society</em></p>



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  <category>Adaptive Shrinkage</category>
  <category>Multilevel Modeling</category>
  <category>Classification</category>
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  <title>[In Preparation] Decision-theoretic empirical Bayes: Optimizing site-specific scale-up decisions under realistic educational data conditions</title>
  <dc:creator>Graham W. Buhrman</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Jee-Seon Kim</dc:creator>
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<p><em>This manuscript is currently in preparation.</em></p>



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  <category>Triple-Goal Estimation</category>
  <category>Multilevel Modeling</category>
  <category>Classification</category>
  <category>HTE</category>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Beyond averages: Portraying treatment effect variation</title>
  <dc:creator>Jee-Seon Kim</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Graham W. Buhrman</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Xiangyi. Liao</dc:creator>
  <link>https://gwbuhrman.com/publications/IMPS-2024-proceedings-beyond-averages/</link>
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<a onclick="window.scrollTo(0, 0); return false;" id="quarto-back-to-top"><i class="bi bi-arrow-up"></i> Back to top</a><div id="quarto-appendix" class="default"><section class="quarto-appendix-contents" id="quarto-citation"><h2 class="anchored quarto-appendix-heading">Citation</h2><div><div class="quarto-appendix-secondary-label">BibTeX citation:</div><pre class="sourceCode code-with-copy quarto-appendix-bibtex"><code class="sourceCode bibtex">@inproceedings{kim2025,
  author = {Kim, Jee-Seon and Buhrman, Graham W. and Liao, Xiangyi.},
  editor = {Kim, Jee-Seon and Wu, H. and Sweet, T. M. and Molenaar, D.
    and Junker, B. W. and Moustaki, I. and Harring, J. and Bulut, O. and
    Tong, X. and Wallin, G. and Di Plinio, S.},
  title = {Beyond Averages: {Portraying} Treatment Effect Variation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Meeting of the
    Psychometric Society: The 89th Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech
    Republic, 2024},
  date = {2025-06-25},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.64028/xvhr927961},
  doi = {10.64028/xvhr927961},
  langid = {en}
}
</code></pre><div class="quarto-appendix-secondary-label">For attribution, please cite this work as:</div><div id="ref-kim2025" class="csl-entry quarto-appendix-citeas">
Kim, J.-S., Buhrman, G. W., &amp; Liao, Xiangyi. (2025). Beyond
averages: Portraying treatment effect variation. In J.-S. Kim, H. Wu, T.
M. Sweet, D. Molenaar, B. W. Junker, I. Moustaki, J. Harring, O. Bulut,
X. Tong, G. Wallin, &amp; S. Di Plinio (Eds.), <em>Proceedings of the
International Meeting of the Psychometric Society: The 89th Annual
Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 2024</em>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.64028/xvhr927961">https://doi.org/10.64028/xvhr927961</a>
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  <category>Causal Inference</category>
  <category>Causal Machine Learning</category>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Using nonparametric regression trees to estimate different forms of heterogeneous treatment effects</title>
  <dc:creator>Graham W. Buhrman</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Xiangyi. Liao</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Jee-Seon Kim</dc:creator>
  <link>https://gwbuhrman.com/publications/IMPS-2024-proceedings-nonparametric-trees/</link>
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<a onclick="window.scrollTo(0, 0); return false;" id="quarto-back-to-top"><i class="bi bi-arrow-up"></i> Back to top</a><div id="quarto-appendix" class="default"><section class="quarto-appendix-contents" id="quarto-citation"><h2 class="anchored quarto-appendix-heading">Citation</h2><div><div class="quarto-appendix-secondary-label">BibTeX citation:</div><pre class="sourceCode code-with-copy quarto-appendix-bibtex"><code class="sourceCode bibtex">@inproceedings{buhrman2025,
  author = {Buhrman, Graham W. and Liao, Xiangyi. and Kim, Jee-Seon},
  editor = {Kim, Jee-Seon and Wu, H. and Sweet, T. M. and Molenaar, D.
    and Junker, B. W. and Moustaki, I. and Harring, J. and Bulut, O. and
    Tong, X. and Wallin, G. and Di Plinio, S.},
  title = {Using Nonparametric Regression Trees to Estimate Different
    Forms of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Meeting of the
    Psychometric Society: The 89th Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech
    Republic, 2024},
  date = {2025-06-25},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.64028/pulr698375},
  doi = {10.64028/pulr698375},
  langid = {en}
}
</code></pre><div class="quarto-appendix-secondary-label">For attribution, please cite this work as:</div><div id="ref-buhrman2025" class="csl-entry quarto-appendix-citeas">
Buhrman, G. W., Liao, Xiangyi., &amp; Kim, J.-S. (2025). Using
nonparametric regression trees to estimate different forms of
heterogeneous treatment effects. In J.-S. Kim, H. Wu, T. M. Sweet, D.
Molenaar, B. W. Junker, I. Moustaki, J. Harring, O. Bulut, X. Tong, G.
Wallin, &amp; S. Di Plinio (Eds.), <em>Proceedings of the International
Meeting of the Psychometric Society: The 89th Annual Meeting, Prague,
Czech Republic, 2024</em>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.64028/pulr698375">https://doi.org/10.64028/pulr698375</a>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Exploring conceptual differences among nonparametric estimators of treatment effect heterogeneity in the context of clustered data</title>
  <dc:creator>Graham W. Buhrman</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Xiangyi Liao</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Jee-Seon Kim</dc:creator>
  <link>https://gwbuhrman.com/publications/IMPS-2023-proceedings-clustered-nonparametric/</link>
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  author = {Buhrman, Graham W. and Liao, Xiangyi and Kim, Jee-Seon},
  editor = {Wiberg, Marie and Kim, Jee-Seon and Hwang, Heungsun and Wu,
    Hao and Sweet, Tracy},
  publisher = {Springer},
  title = {Exploring Conceptual Differences Among Nonparametric
    Estimators of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in the Context of
    Clustered Data},
  booktitle = {Quantitative Psychology: The 88th Annual Meeting of the
    Psychometric Society, Maryland, USA, 2023},
  date = {2024-06-19},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55548-0_25},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-55548-0_25},
  langid = {en}
}
</code></pre><div class="quarto-appendix-secondary-label">For attribution, please cite this work as:</div><div id="ref-buhrman2024" class="csl-entry quarto-appendix-citeas">
Buhrman, G. W., Liao, X., &amp; Kim, J.-S. (2024). Exploring conceptual
differences among nonparametric estimators of treatment effect
heterogeneity in the context of clustered data. In M. Wiberg, J.-S. Kim,
H. Hwang, H. Wu, &amp; T. Sweet (Eds.), <em>Quantitative Psychology: The
88th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Maryland, USA,
2023</em>. Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55548-0_25">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55548-0_25</a>
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