Welcome to the Modern Modeling Methods site. The Modern Modeling Methods (M³) conference is a bi-annual interdisciplinary conference designed to showcase the latest modeling methods and to present research related to these methodologies.

Big news! The next M³ conference be June 22-24, 2026 in New York City. Keynote speakers are Jennifer Hill, Greg Hancock, and Patrick Curran. The proposal submission site is now open, and conference proposals are due Friday, February 6, 2026. To submit your proposal, go to https://fordh.am/211

I have secured a small block of rooms in the Empire Hotel, which is right next to the Lincoln Center campus. Single rooms are $309+tax and double rooms are $359 + tax. Please book your room early if you are planning to stay in the hotel. You can use this link to book your room: https://fordh.am/24f

This year, Bob Carpenter and Mitzi Morris will present an all-day pre-conference workshop Bayesian modeling and inference with Stan on June 22, 2026 9:00-5:00. This workshop is a full day, hands-on introduction to Bayesian modeling and statistical inference using the probabilistic programming language Stan (https://mc-stan.org).
The course will be organized around the key properties of Bayesian statistical modeling for science, including the nature of uncertainty, modeling a generative process through a likelihood, modeling existing knowledge through a prior, and pushing uncertainty through inference. As we do this, we will show how Stan can be used to both code the models and perform statistical inference for quantities of interest, be they retrospective parameter estimates or prospective predictions or forecasts.  We will concentrate on full Bayesian posterior inference, including a discussion of calibration, model checking for both prior and posterior inference, and model comparison with cross-validation.  We will spend some time showing how some structural equation models (SEM) can be translated directly to Stan and will also introduce psychological models for educational testing, crowdsourcing, rating and ranking, and real-time decision processes.

History of MMM: The first Modern Modeling Methods conference was held at UCONN in 2011. The conference draws approximately 200 scholars from across the globe. M³ provides a unique opportunity for methodologists and researchers from a variety of disciplines who conduct research on or using modeling techniques to network and share their work with each other. The latest M³ conference (2024) featured a keynote by Denny Borsboom and a full-day preconference workshop by Sacha Epskamp on Psychometric network modeling with the psychonetrics R package. The 2024 conference archive contains links to pdfs of slides/posters if available.

You can access materials from the 2024 pre-conference workshop, conference presentations and posters here.

Supplementary materials for  Multilevel Modeling Methods with Introductory and Advanced Applications (2022) are available here.

Introduction to Modern Modelling Methods (2022) is now available. Supplementary materials are available here.