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Ed Merkle
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quantitative psychologist, open source enthusiast, recently working on R package blavaan
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🚨 New working paper about examining exam results #rstats#psychometric#mathwww.zeileis.org/news/exams/

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SEsachaepskamp.bsky.social

I gave a 2-hour workshop on Structural Equation Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in lavaan for the Psych #rstatsyoutu.be/YrxvV8zlNLY?...@improvingpsych.org!

Introduction to CFA & Structural Equation Modelling in R
Introduction to CFA & Structural Equation Modelling in R

YouTube video by Psych #rstats Club

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blavaan 0.5-6 was recently released to CRAN. It has always done Bayesian structural equation modeling, but in recent years we have added some functionality for ordinal observed variables and for two-level SEM (random intercepts). More info here:

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CDcharlesdriver.bsky.social

ctsem 3.10.1 is on CRAN, mostly fixing a bug introduced last update when outcome variables are both continuous and binary, and including a function for improved visualisation of moderation effects. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...#psychology#rstats

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DBbetanalpha.bsky.social

If you want an effective color palette then don't try to get cute: just use one from colorbrewer2.orgkennethmoreland.com/color-advice/, and then still use ColorBrewer.

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AVavehtari.bsky.social

priorsense package for prior and likelihood sensitivity analysis is now on CRAN. It works with Stan (brms, rstan or cmdstanr) fits, or just posterior draws. See more in Noa Kallioinen's post at discourse.mc-stan.org/t/priorsense...#Bayes#MCMC#rstats

Priorsense 1.0 is now on CRAN
Priorsense 1.0 is now on CRAN

priorsense 1.0 has been released and is now available on CRAN. priorsense is an R package for efficiently checking whether the posterior is sensitivity to changes to the prior or likelihood (see the ...

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CDcharlesdriver.bsky.social

Some quantitative psychology (longitudinal emphasis) positions available with me at Uni Zurich from September on, rebleets appreciated! Postdoc: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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Psychometrika will convert to gold open access in 2025. The new publisher, Cambridge, has agreements with many universities (including in the US) that make the open access possible. Anyone who cannot pay the APC will be waived. www.psychometricsociety.org/post/psychom...

Psychometrika Converting to Open Access! - Psychometric Society
Psychometrika Converting to Open Access! - Psychometric Society

New agreement with Cambridge University Press for 2025

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Ed Merkle
@edgarmerkle.bsky.social
quantitative psychologist, open source enthusiast, recently working on R package blavaan
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