Elise Dusseldorp
News
This interview with Elise Dusseldorp was taken on June 7, 2007 in a scientific radio-show, broadcasted by Dutch broadcasting-organization Teleac. Please note that the interview takes place at the start of the show, and then continues from the 27th minute. Website Teleac Hoe? Zo!
Academic career
- Statistician at TNO (a research center), division: Quality of Life (from September 2007).
- Assistant Professor (June 2006-2007) in the section Child and Family Studies and Data Theory, Department of Education.
- Post-doctoral fellow in the Data Theory Group, within the VENI-project "Modeling interactions as small trees in regression and classification" (2002-2006).
- Post-doctoral fellow in the Data Theory Group, within the project “Relational Data Theory for the Behavioral Sciences” (2001-2002).
- Ph.D. Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001). Title of thesis: Discovering treatment covariate interaction: An integration of regression trees and multiple regression”. Advisors: prof. J.J. Meulman and prof. S. Maes.
- Part-time methodological consultant in the Department of Health Psychology, Leiden University (1995-1998).
- M.Sc. Psychology (1996), specialization Psychometrics and Research Methodology, Leiden University.
- Degree in music education at the conservatoire in Rotterdam (1990).
Grants and honors
2005 Elected to the Young Division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (DJA)
VENI-project "Modeling interactions as small trees in regression and classification", financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (November 2002 - May 2006). Short summary of this project.
Research Areas
- Classification and regression trees
- Interaction effects in regression analysis
- Differential treatment effectiveness
- Optimal scaling
- Data mining
Publications
Dusseldorp, E., Spinhoven, Ph., Bakker, A., Van Dyck, R., & Van Balkom, A.J.L.M. (2007). Which panic disorder patients benefit from which treatment: Cognitive therapy or antidepressants? Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 76, 154-161. Article
Boersma, S.N., Maes, S., Joekes, K., & Dusseldorp, E. (2006). Goal processes in relation to goal attainment: Predicting health-related quality of life in myocardial infarction patients. Journal of Health Psychology, 11(6), 931-945.
Gebhardt, W.A., Kuyper, L., & Dusseldorp, E. (2006). Condom Use at First Intercourse with a New Partner in Female Adolescents and Young Adults: The Role of Cognitive Planning and Motives for Having Sex. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35, 217-223. Article
Dusseldorp, E. & Meulman, J. J. (2004). The regression trunk approach to discover treatment covariate interaction. Psychometrika, 69, 355-374. Abstract , Article
Van Dijk, M. R., Steyerberg, E. W., Stenning, S. P., Dusseldorp, E., & Habbema, J. D. F. (2004). Survival of patients with nonseminomatous germ cell cancer: A review of the IGCC classification by Cox regression and recursive partitioning. British Journal of Cancer, 90, 1176-1183.
Dusseldorp, E. & Meulman, J. J. (2002). Application of data mining tools in the behavioral sciences. In J. Meij (Ed.), Dealing with the data flood: Mining data, text and multimedia (pp. 220-234). The Hague: Netherlands Study Center for Technology Trends (STT) / Beweton.
Baele, J., Dusseldorp, E. & Maes, S. (2001). Condom use self-efficacy: Effect on intended and actual condom use in adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 28, 421-431.
Brezinka, V., Maes, S., & Dusseldorp, E. (2001). Gender differences in psychological impairment after a coronary incident. Personality and Individual Differences, 30, 127- 135.
Dusseldorp, E. & Meulman, J. J. (2001). Prediction in medicine by integrating regression trees into regression analysis with optimal scaling. Methods of Information in Medicine, 40, 403-409. Abstract.
Dusseldorp, E. (2001). Discovering Treatment Covariate Interaction: An Integration of Regression Trees and Multiple Regression. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands. Contents. Short summary in Dutch.
Van Elderen, T. & Dusseldorp, E. (2001). Lifestyle effects of group health education for patients with coronary heart disease. Psychology and Health, 16, 327-341.
Chatrou, M., Maes, S., Dusseldorp, E., & Seegers, G. (1999). Effects of the Brabant smoking prevention programme: A replication of the Wisconsin programme. Psychology and Health, 14, 159-178.
Gebhardt, W.A., Dusseldorp, E., & Maes, S. (1999). Measuring transitions through stages of exercise: Application of latent transition analysis. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 88, 1097-1106.
Van Elderen, T. Maes, S., & Dusseldorp, E. (1999). Coping with coronary heart disease: A longitudinal study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 47(2), 175-183.
Dusseldorp, E., Van Elderen, T., Maes, S., Meulman, J., & Kraaij, V. (1999). A meta-analysis of psychoeducational programs for coronary heart disease patients. Health Psychology, 18(5), 506-519. Abstract.
Brezinka, V. Dusseldorp, E., & Maes, S. (1998). Gender differences in psychosocial profile at entry into cardiac rehabilitation. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, 18, 445-449.
Dusseldorp, E. (1996). The study of aptitude treatment interaction by nonlinear methods: Evaluation of a psychosocial treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Research report RR-96-03, Leiden: Department of Data Theory.
Pre-publications
Manisera, M. , Dusseldorp, E., and Van der Kooij, A. (2006) Identifying the component structure of job satisfaction by categorical principal components analysis. Download manuscript in pdf.
Research School
Teacher in the Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics: IOPS