Commentary: Dyadic Analyses of Family Data

Commentary: Dyadic analyses of family data.

It is an honor and privilege to be asked to comment on the 12 papers in this special issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology on Family Assessment. In most of the papers in this issue, the family member who was assessed was a parent whose child had been diagnosed with a serious chronic condition. It should be clear that when a family member is assessed that measurement reflects not only the...

Qualitative Approaches to Dyadic Data Analyses in Family Communication Research: An Invited Essay

This essay reviews interpretive approaches to dyadic analysis using qualitative data. After reviewing classic approaches to dyadic analysis of qualitative data, we explore some of the benefits these classic approaches offer family communication studies. We then look to three new approaches to dyadic analysis—multiadic analysis, affective analysis, and collaborative autoethnography—that can be o...

Commentary: Push–button analyses

Learning from Dyadic Data

Dyadic data refers to a domain with two nite sets of objects in which observations are made for dyads, i.e., pairs with one element from either set. This type of data arises naturally in many application ranging from computational linguistics and information retrieval to preference analysis and computer vision. In this paper, we present a systematic, domain-independent framework of learning fro...

Bayesian Analysis of Dyadic Data

1 Synoptic Abstract This paper considers the Bayesian analysis of dyadic data with particular emphasis on applications in social psychology. Various existing models are extended and unified under a class of models where a single value is elicited to complete the prior specification. Certain situations which have sometimes been problematic (e.g. incomplete data, non-standard covariates, missing ...