Von Eye, Alexander: - Alexander von Eye, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Trier, Germany, in 1976. His work focuses on categorical data analysis, methods of analysis of direction dependence hypotheses, person-oriented research, and human development. He authored texts on, e.g., Configural Frequency Analysis (with Wiedermann), and on log-linear modeling, and he edited, e.g., a book on statistics and causality (with Wiedermann). His over 400 articles appeared in the premier journals of the field, including Psychological Methods, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Child Development, the American Statistician, and the Journal of Applied Statistics.