Patrick J. Curran | |
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| Born | May 9, 1965 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado Arizona State University |
| Awards | Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology Tanaka Award (2006) Association for Psychological Science Fellow (2007) Chapman Family Teaching Award (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | UCLA Duke University University of North Carolina |
| Thesis | The robustness of confirmatory factor analysis to model misspecification and violations of normality |
| Doctoral advisors | Stephen West Laurie Chassin |
Patrick James Curran (born May 9, 1965) is an American psychologist and statistician. He is a professor of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina, where he is also a faculty member at the Center for Developmental Science.
He is the coauthor of Latent Curve Models: A Structural Equation Perspective (with Ken Bollen) and is known broadly in the social sciences for teaching and research on the measurement and analysis of longitudinal data.[1]
He is co-host, along with Gregory R. Hancock, of Quantitude, a podcast focusing on quantitative methodology.