Tammy L. Root, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Tammy L. Root,
Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Eating
Disorders in the
School
of
Medicine
in the Department of Psychiatry at the
University
of
North Carolina
at
Chapel Hill
. Dr. Root received her Ph.D. from the Department of Human Development and
Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Root has two general
research interests: (1) eating disorders and (2) developmental research
methodology. She is primarily interested in examining the relation between
eating disorders and substance use from both a phenotypic and genetic
perspective. Her goal is to elucidate the current knowledge on this
comorbidity in hopes of better informing prevention and treatment efforts,
while simultaneously applying the most current and innovative methodology for
best answering the research questions. Dr. Root is also interested in the
methodological advancement of discrete latent variable modeling, particularly
latent class analysis. In 2006, Dr. Root received a Predoctoral Fellowship
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Her dissertation research,
motivated by the small sample sizes typically found in eating disorder
research, focused on expanding the latent class model to include informative
prior distributions. Doing so improves parameter estimation as well as issues
related to empirical identification, particularly when sample sizes are small
in relation to the complexity of the model being tested.
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Tammy L. Root,
Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Eating
Disorders in the
School
of
Medicine
in the Department of Psychiatry at the
University
of
North Carolina
at
Chapel Hill
. Dr. Root received her Ph.D. from the Department of Human Development and
Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Root has two general
research interests: (1) eating disorders and (2) developmental research
methodology. She is primarily interested in examining the relation between
eating disorders and substance use from both a phenotypic and genetic
perspective. Her goal is to elucidate the current knowledge on this
comorbidity in hopes of better informing prevention and treatment efforts,
while simultaneously applying the most current and innovative methodology for
best answering the research questions. Dr. Root is also interested in the
methodological advancement of discrete latent variable modeling, particularly
latent class analysis. In 2006, Dr. Root received a Predoctoral Fellowship
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Her dissertation research,
motivated by the small sample sizes typically found in eating disorder
research, focused on expanding the latent class model to include informative
prior distributions. Doing so improves parameter estimation as well as issues
related to empirical identification, particularly when sample sizes are small
in relation to the complexity of the model being tested.