Jeroen K VermuntJeroen K. Vermunt is a full professor in the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His research is on methodology of social, behavioral, and biomedical research, with a special focus on latent variabl models and techniques for the analysis of categorical, multilevel, and longitudinal data sets. He has widely published on these topics in statistical and methodological journals and has also coauthored many articles in applied journals in which these methods are used to solve practical research problems. He is the codeveloper (with Jay Magidson) of the Latent GOLD software package. In 2005, Vermunt was awarded the Leo Goodman award by the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association. His full CV and publications can be found at www.jeroenvermunt.nl. Read More Read Less