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This is the personal site of Dominic Ricottone.

You can also find me on GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.

Here are my most recent blog posts.

A Series on SEM - Part 3, posted on 2025-12-12

This is a relatively minor update on my saga of tacking the many-headed beast that is structural equation modeling (SEM).

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A Series on SEM - Part 2, posted on 2025-12-04

This is part of a series on structural equation modeling (SEM). Specifically, bumbling around with SEM to try and fit a random effects regression, because people smarter than I have said they can be equivalent.
A Series on SEM - Part 1, posted on 2025-11-21

Earlier this year, while reading Paul Allison’s Fixed Effects Regression Methods for Longitudinal Data Using SAS, I came across a peculiar claim. “It is now well known (Muthén 1994) that a random effects models such as the one in equation (6.1) can be represented as a structural equation model (SEM).”

I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.

Now listening to

re6ce and ThxSoMch
Now listening to

Thotcrime, Cocojoey, Full Body 2, and Anamanaguchi, all live at Metro
Now listening to

Joywave, live at Uptown Live

My most listened to music of the last 30 days. See more on LastFM.

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