Ph.D. in quantitative psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Anthony Rodriguez is a behavioral and social scientist at the RAND Corporation. Also a quantitative psychologist/psychometrician, his quantitative methodological research has focused on structural equation modeling (SEM), item response theory (IRT), and latent growth models. A major focus of his research has tackled issues of dimensionality, reliability, and assessment scoring. He also investigated and developed alternative item response theory models designed to address and model non-normality in latent traits and errors. Equally important in his research is making these methodological pieces accessible to substantive researchers and, as such, he has written didactic guides for easy implementation and interpretation of model results.
His substantive research interests have resulted in extensive collaborations spanning ethnic/racial disparities in longitudinal adolescent and early adulthood alcohol, marijuana, cigarette, e-cigarette, and opioid use; standardized assessment in post-acute care settings (home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and long-term care hospitals); development and testing of measures to evaluate emergency response communication; development, testing, and implementation of palliative care quality measures; generating crosswalks between PROMIS-29 and chronic pain legacy measures; ethnic/racial differences in the measurement of acculturation; and comparative effectiveness of culturally-centered suicide interventions for Alaska Native youth.
Rodriguez received his Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Rodriguez, A., Edelen, M. O., Herman, P. M., & Hays, R. D, "Unpacking the impact of chronic pain as measured by the impact stratification score," BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2023
Rodriguez, A., Edelen, M. O., McMullen, T., Ahluwalia, S. G., Chen, E. K., Dalton, S., Paddock, S., Saliba, D., Mandl, S., & Mota, T., "Who Receives Post-Acute Care? Characteristics of national population and field test sample. ," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,, (4), 2022
Rodriguez, Anthony, Maria Orlando Edelen, Adam Scherling, Julia Bandini, Carrie M. Farmer, Danielle Schlang, Melissa A. Bradley, Julia Rollison, Brian G. Vegetabile, Sarah Dalton, and Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia, MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development: Summary Report of Alpha Testing, RAND Corporation (WR-A400-1), 2020
Anthony Rodriguez, Steve P. Reise, Mark G. Haviland, "Applying bifactor statistical indices in the evaluation of psychological measures," Journal of Personality Assessment
Anthony Rodriguez, Steve P. Reise, Mark G. Haviland, "Evaluating bifactor models: Calculating and interpreting statistical indices," Psychological Methods
D’Amico, E. J., Rodriguez, A., Tucker, J. S., Pedersen, E. R. & Shih, R. A., "Planting the seed for marijuana use: Changes in exposure to medical marijuana advertizing and subsequent adolescent marijuana use, cognitions, and consequences over seven years," Drug Alcohol Dependence
Anthony Rodriguez, Steve P. Reise, "Item response theory and the measurement of psychiatric constructs: Some empirical and conceptual issues and challenges," Psychological Medicine
Steve P. Reise, Anthony Rodriguez, Karen Spritzer, Ron Hays, "Alternative Approaches to Addressing Non-Normal Distributions in the Application of IRT Models to Personality Measures," Journal of Personality Assessment
