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Dr. Douglas W. Levine

Associate Professor, Quantitative PhD, University of California, Irvine Eberhart 276 Phone:  (336) 256-2472 Email:  dwlevine@uncg.edu

Douglas Levine received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine and completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University. He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas, an Associate Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and a Research Professor at the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Levine is a quantitative psychologist whose areas of quantitative research include power analysis, classification problems, categorical data analysis, and using resampling methodologies in factor analysis. He has also worked in the areas of public health research, transportation research, and on research related to subsistence behaviors in Alaskan Natives.

Some Recent Publications

Dumas, J.E., Nissley, J., Nordstrom, A., Smith, E.P., Prinz, R.J. & Levine, D.W. (2005). Home Chaos: Sociodemographic, Parenting, Interactional, and Child Correlates. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 93-104.

Dziak, K., Anderson, R., Sevick, M.A., Weisman, C., Levine, D.W., Scholle, S.H. (2005). Variations among institutional review board reviews in a multi-Site health services research study. Health Services Research, 40, 279-290.

Levine, D.W. (2005). Do dogs resemble their owners? A reanalysis of Roy & Christenfeld (2004). Psychological Science, 16, 83-84.

Levine D.W., Dailey, M.E., Rockhill, B., Tipping, D., Naughton, M.J., & Shumaker, S.A. (2005). Validation of the Women’s Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale in a Multicenter Controlled Clinical Trial. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 98-104.

Levine D.W. & Rockhill, B. (2006). I Remember You: Independence and the Binomial Model. Teaching Statistics.

Some Favorite Publications

Levine D.W., Kaplan, R.M., Kripke, D.F., Bowen, D.J., Naughton, M.J. & Shumaker, S.A. (2003). Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Women’s Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale. Psychological Assessment, 15, 123-136.

Levine, D.W. (2002). Hanley, J.A., Joseph, L., Platt, R.W., Chung, M.K. and Bélisle, P. (2001). “Visualizing the Median as the Minimum-Deviation Location,” The American Statistician, 55, 150-152: Comment by Levine. The American Statistician, 56(1), 81-82.

Levine, A., Liukkonen, J., & Levine, D. W. (1996). Equivalent inferences using transformations. Communications in Statistics, Part A: Theory and Methods, 25, 1059-1072.

Levine, D. W. & Dunlap, W. P. (1982). Power of the F-test with skewed data: Should one transform or not? Psychological Bulletin, 92, 272-280.