Ken Kelley

Education

• Ph D, University of Notre Dame, Quantitative Psychology
• MA, University of Notre Dame, Quantitative Psychology
• BA, University of Cincinnati, Psychology

Jobs

• Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Mendoza College of Business
• Assistant Professor, Department of Management, University of Notre Dame
• Statistician, Center for Adolescent and Family Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington
• Assistant Professor, Inquiry Methodology Program, Department of Counseling and Education Psychology, Indiana University-Bloomington
• Acting Assistant Professor, Inquiry Methodology Program, Department of Counseling and Education Psychology, Indiana University-Bloomington
• Dissertation Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
• Statistical Consultant, Laboratory for Social Research, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame
• Statistical Consultant, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame

Expertise

• Methodology / Analytics
• Statistical Methods / Business Analytics
• Research Design / Sample Size Planning
• Measurement / Psychometrics
• Longitudinal Data Analysis / Analysis of Change

Editorial Boards

• Associate Editor, Psychological Methods (2013 - 2013)
• Other, Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement (2010 - 2010)
• Editorial Board Member, Psychological Methods (2009 - 2009)

• Measuring Demographic Alignment: A Novel Approach and Its Impact on Performance, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference (2025)
• Effect sizes, sequential methods, and advancing experimentation for science and industry., INFORMS (2025)
• Accurate estimation of effect sizes: A sequential approach for scientific advancement, International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics) (2022)
• Accuracy in Parameter Estimation for Correlation Measures: A Sequential Approach, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (2018)
• Recovering from a Crisis of Confidence: Designing and conducting effective replication studies, International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (2018)
• Assessing Omitted Confounder Bias in Multilevel Mediation Models, Modern Modeling Methods Conference (2018)
• Accuracy in Parameter Estimation for a General Class of Effect Size: A Sequential Approach, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (2017)
• Accuracy in Parameter Estimation for a General Class of Effect Sizes: A Sequential Approach, Joint Statistics Meeting (2017)
• Minimum-risk Point-estimation for the Standardized Mean Difference Using Sequential Estimation, International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (2016)
• Service excellence in US hotels: A Longitudinal Analysis, Production and Operations Management Society (2015)
• Comments on my past work and future plans: Acceptance of the Anastasi Early Career Award , Annaul convention of the American Psychological Association (2014)
• A modern, general, and highly flexible approach to sample size planning for modern research designs, Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (2014)
• Monte Carlo simulation methods for modern designs: A general approach to sample size planning. , Joint Statistics Meeting (2014)
• Acceptance of the “Best Paper” in Methodology Award: Comments on Kelley and Cheng (2012, Methodology)), European Conference of Methodology (2014)
• A flexible approach to sample size planning for modern research questions, European Congress of Methodology (2014)
• National Culture and the Service-Profit Chain: A Longitudinal Study in the Hotel Industry, POMS: Production and Operations Management Society (2013)
• The Role of Differential Susceptibility in Infancy on the Cognitive, Behavioral and Psychosocial Outcomes of Young Children, Meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies (2012)
• Classification in the presence of heterogeneous groups: A Monte Carlo comparison of several statistical methods, Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (2012)
• Accuracy in Parameter Estimation for Omnibus and Targeted Effects in Structural Equation Modeling: Sample Size Planning for Narrow Confidence Intervals, Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (2011)
• An evaluation of confidence intervals for composite reliability coefficients, Joint Statistics Meeting (2011)
• Sample size planning to obtain narrow confidence intervals for the RMSEA, International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (2010)
• Sample size planning to obtain narrow confidence intervals for the RMSEA., Joint Statistics Meeting (2010)
• Accuracy in parameter estimation for group effects in longitudinal models: Sample size planning for narrow confidence intervals, Joint Statistics Meeting (2009)
• Accuracy in parameter estimation for the RMSEA, Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting (2008)
• The average rate of change in longitudinal models, Psychometric Society Annual Meeting (2008)
• Effects of misclassified data on two methods of classification analysis: A Monte Carlo simulation study, American Educational Research Association (2008)
• Accuracy in parameter estimation for composite reliability coefficients, American Psychological Association Annual Convention (2007)
• Accuracy in parameter estimation for omnibus and targeted effects in analysis of variance, American Psychological Association Annual Convention (2007)
• Accuracy in parameter estimation for standardized means, mean differences, and contrasts, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (2007)
• Temperament and parenting across early childhood: Growth mixture modeling using the NICHD Study of early child care, (with A. D. Stright), Society for Research in Child Development Meeting (2007)
• Sample size planning for the squared multiple correlation coefficient: Accuracy in Parameter Estimation via narrow confidence intervals, Psychometric Society Annual Meeting (2006)
• Children's temperament moderates the relations between maternal parenting and children's adjustment to school, (with A. D. Stright & K. C. Gallagher), American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (2006)
• Estimating nonlinear growth models in heterogenous populations when class membership is unknown: Defining and developing the latent classification differential change model, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (2004)
• Teacher aides, class size and academic achievement: An evaluation of Indiana's Prime Time, (with D. K. Lapsley, K. Daytner, and S. E. Maxwell), American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (2002)
• 95 Million t tests: The empirical findings when the assumption of independence is violated in the two-sample t test, Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting (2000)

• 2026 Roger E. Kirk Division 5 Author of the Year Award, American Psychological Foundation (2026)
• Barbara Byrne Award for Outstanding Book or Edited Volume (for Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data: A model comparison perspective, 2018, Maxwell, Delaney, & Kelley; 3rd ed.), Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (2022)
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Master's of Science in Business Analytics (2021)
• 40-Under-40 Outstanding MBA Professors, Poets & Quants (2017)
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Master's of Science in Business Analytics (2016)
• Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Research Award in Social Science, University of Notre Dame (2005)
• Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame (2004)
• Dissertation Research Award, Society of Multivariate and Experimental Psychology (2004)
• Senior Man of the Year, Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati (2000)
• Community and University Service Award, Cincinnati Psychological Association (2000)
• Outstanding Achievement Scholarship, Scholarship and Awards Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences (1999)

• Sample size planning for effect sizes and an R package for implementation: Designing educational studies for accurate parameter estimates, Proffitt Fellowship for Educational Research, $40,000
• Pathobiology of Kidney Disease: Role of iron, National Institutes of Health, $270,000
• Accuracy in parameter estimation for standardized effect sizes related to means and ANOVAs, Proffitt Fellowship for Educational Research, $10,000

• DataInformed, http://data-informed.com/what-is-the-most-underutilized-trend-in-data-analytics-qa-with-ken-kelley/ (2017)