My research is a confluence of statistical and substantive work, with a developmental perspective. Broadly, my statistical interests include latent variable models, psychometrics and the analysis of change. Recently, my focus has been on the use of latent class and mixture models, especially model selection and as psychometric models. Substantively, my work focuses on cigarette smoking & nicotine dependence; substance use in general; and adolescent development. My recent substantive work has focused on the identification and measurement of cigarette smoking and substance profiles or patterns.
- Flaherty, B. P. (2008). Testing the degree of cross-sectional and longitudinal dependence between two discrete dynamic processes. Developmental Psychology, 44, 468--480
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- Colder, C. R., Lloyd-Richardson, E. E., Flaherty, B. P., Hedeker, D., Segawa, E., Flay, B. R. & TERN (2006). The natural history of college smoking: Trajectories of daily smoking during the freshman year. Addictive Behaviors, 31, 2212-2222.
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- Chung, H., Flaherty, B. P. & Schafer, J. L. (2006). Latent class logistic regression: Application to marijuana use and attitudes among high-school seniors. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 169, 723--743.
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- O'Connor, R. J., Flaherty, B. P., Quinio, B. A., & Kozlowski, L. T. (2003). Regular smokeless tobacco use is not a reliable predictor of smoking onset when psychosocial predictors are included in the model. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 5, 535--543.
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- Flaherty, B. P. (2002). Assessing the reliability of categorical substance use items with latent class analysis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 68S, 7--20.
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- Shanahan, M. J. & Flaherty, B. P. (2001). Dynamic patterns of time use strategies in adolescence. Child Development, 72, 385--401.
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- Collins, L. M., Graham, J. W., & Flaherty, B. P. (1998). An alternative framework for defining mediation. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 33, 295--312.
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