Tag: Nilam Ram

Time-Related Considerations for Modeling Event-Based Data Collected via Ecological Momentary Assessment

This article provides an overview of survival analysis, describes several time-based considerations for modeling event-based EMA data using survival analysis, and provides several illustrative examples of the different time-based considerations...

Demystifying Data Donation Methods to Advance Digital Health Research

[Workshop on October 25, 2025] "Curious about teens’ digital lives? There’s a better way than guessing. Ask them directly and let them share their data with you..."

Tracking, modeling, and modifying human activity, performance, and health: Ideas emerging from the merging of super-intensive longitudinal paradigms and AI

[Talk on October 3, 2025] "Nilàm Ram, professor of communication and psychology at Stanford University, will speak on ,Tracking, modeling, and modifying human activity, performance, and health'"...

Regression and Statistical Learning: K-Fold Cross-Validation

Mapping the human screenome: Our vast digital lives

"In this episode of School’s In, Professor Nilam Ram discusses the Human Screenome Project, a research study that explores cell phone usage and what it says about the way we process information."

Positive Affect Dynamics

Here, we examine how key temporal properties—including variability, instability, inertia, and reactivity—relate to adaptive functioning and health-relevant outcomes. These dynamic approaches extend traditional assessment frameworks, offering greater predictive utility for understanding health trajectories beyond static measures...

Mindfulness from Me to We: A Randomized Control Trial on the Effects of an 8-week Mindfulness Intervention on Mindfulness, Well-Being, Mental Health, Compassion, and Prosociality

We investigated whether effects of an 8-week mindfulness training (Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults), known to result in changes in mindfulness, well-being, and mental health, would carry over into changes in compassion and then into changes in prosociality (a cascade effect)...

Bayesian Response Surface Analysis

Foundations of Response Surface Analysis for Congruence Hypothesis

Dynamic Dyadic Systems