Jatin Vaidya
@jay-gee-vee.bsky.social
Research Scientist University of Iowa
Want to know what happens under the hood when calculating estimated marginal means? Read the {modelbased} vignette "Understanding marginalization methods"! It breaks down the different approaches with hands-on manual calculations using penguins-data. easystats.github.io/modelbased/a...
Understanding marginalization methods
easystats.github.io
After learning about the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for statistics research going to the R Project, I looked up the two previous sets of winners: 2022 — causal inference 2024 — false discovery rate Extremely important work to say the least www.rousseeuwprize.org
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
rousseeuwprize.org
Well, of course they are an “anarchist leaning punk band”
Perhaps not as egregious given her stature in the field, but APA listed me as Satin Vaidya for my first poster submission. Oh did my friends have a good time with that one.
Speaking of crazy d values, this reminds me of this feature I was thinking about adding to the forest() function in metafor. #Rstats #MetaAnalysis
Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.
On Dec 31, 2025, MTV formally ended its music television run choosing to focus on other content ideas. Fret not - the internet exists! MTV Rewind plays music videos spanning several decades without click ads etc. Break out the Aquanet & stirrup pants & go get your nostalgic MTV!
MTV REWIND - I Want My MTV
Celebrating 44 years of continuous music videos. Stream classic music videos 24/7.
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Analysis of 14 million PubMed abstracts shows huge changes in language after the widespread availability of LLMs. "Our analysis based on excess words usage suggests that at least 10% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs." arxiv.org/html/2406.07... #psychscisky #metascience #academicsky
Nice overview of latent state trait models youtube.com/watch?v=qKGI...
I’m honored to be part of this year’s cohort of Guggenheim Fellows. The fellowship stipend is basically going to cover all the reporting for The Infinite Extent, my 3rd book www.gf.org/announcements/
Surprised to see fairly significant volumetric differences here. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Looks like a nice, “light-weight” table making package. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
Question: when reporting financial disclosures for a manuscript in psych or neuro journals, do you include all forms of salary support? Specifically, do you include NIH/NSF support?
Thanks to Daniel Sjoberg for tbl_summary function in gtsummary! Cross tabs made easy! #Rstats
This absolutely beautiful blog post describes the author receiving an “alien in a can” at age 8 and was told to never open it lest the alien dies. He compares his experimentations to efforts in psych science to draw inferences about psych states. www.davis-stober.com/post/alien-i...
Alien in a can
An intergalactic journey to discover the gap between psychological theory and data. I celebrated my eighth birthday while visiting my aunt and uncle in Minneapolis one summer, and received the most in...
davis-stober.com
Always nice to leave the health sciences campus and enjoy downtown Iowa City.
If a bunch statisticians start a band, it should be called IMMORTAL TIME BIAS
Great overview of data.table functions and features #Rstats www.machinelearningplus.com/data-manipul...
data.table in R – The Complete Beginners Guide
Learn Data Science Online
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50 years of Stockholm Syndrome. The cases is much more fascinating than I had realized. www.history.com/news/stockho...
Stockholm Syndrome: The True Story of Hostages Loyal to Their Captor | HISTORY
How a six-day hostage drama inside a Swedish bank christened the psychological phenomenon known as "Stockholm Syndrome."
history.com
Why are cells called cells? “He (Hooke) called them cells because they reminded him of cells in a monastery…”
Ooof! The New Yorker is a little tough on the PANAS! Can Happiness Be Taught? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Some great advanced pivot wider and longer features. dcl-wrangle.stanford.edu/pivot-advanc... #Rstats
6 Advanced pivoting | Data Wrangling
A collection of readings on data wrangling.
dcl-wrangle.stanford.edu
I haven't figured out threads on here: We made a thing! Learn R through PSYCH! Psychological Statistics You Can Handle - a 21 part Module to teach R. It's interactive, uses real open psych data, and is free. install.packages("swirl") library(swirl) install_course_github("krcarriere", "PSYCH")
Groundhog for R is so good for reproducibility. You just load your packages with it and voila, anyone who runs your script will have the same package versions. One less hurdle to reproducible code. Props to the team at Wharton Credibility Lab! groundhogr.com #psychscisky
