👏 Huge congratulations to Assistant Prof @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social Lotspeich for her Societal Impact Award from the @cwstat.bsky.social! Dr. Lotspeich is being recognized for her outstanding efforts and impact on social justice through your collaboration, leadership, and partnerships.

Really excited to see this paper is finally out! 👇👇👇

Simon Vandekar@vandyatvandy.bsky.social · last yr.

Easily add effect sizes and confidence intervals with the RESI R package. Now official with a publication in JSS. doi.org/10.18637/jss... Check out the website (statimagcoll.github.io/RESI/) to report bugs or request model types. @mntj21.bsky.social - first author, with @kaidikang.bsky.social

Excited to reach this milestone!!

Peg Duthie@plduthie.bsky.social · 2y ago

PhD candidate @vanderbilt.edu Kaidi Kang @kaidikang.bsky.social (MS biostatistics @columbiauniversity.bsky.social) defends his dissertation on Monday 3/10 at 1 pm. Advisor: @vandyatvandy.bsky.social. The event is hybrid and all are invited. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #NeuroSky #MedSky #BWAS

New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Indirect Costs at NIH . . .

I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:

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Don't throw out your data though! If you model separate between- and within-subject effects, you'd see that they're different! Brain-behavior associations across individuals are different than changes within individuals. You can model those separately in your own data without any fancy stats!

Tidbit that you can implement in your own analyses: If you collect longitudinal data you improve efficiency by throwing out half your data! WTF?! If you use baseline ("1st") versus a common longitudinal analysis ("All") effect size decreases! Read on! @kaidikang.bsky.social @meharpist.bsky.social

If they are accurate measurements (i.e., the participant has extreme cognitive ability on that task), then I would not consider them outliers, even if their values are extreme. (#2)

Howard Chiu@howardchiu.bsky.social · 2y ago

How should we handle outlier data points, given that one of the recommendations was that “individuals scoring at the extremes on a testing scale or battery ('phase I') could be prioritized for subsequent brain scanning ('phase II')”? Are we looking for data that is extreme but not too extreme?

Thanks for the good question. If the outlier is caused by technical measurement error (i.e., the measure is not capturing what it is intended to; e.g., the person was falling asleep during the task), they should be excluded from the analysis. (#1)

Howard Chiu@howardchiu.bsky.social · 2y ago

How should we handle outlier data points, given that one of the recommendations was that “individuals scoring at the extremes on a testing scale or battery ('phase I') could be prioritized for subsequent brain scanning ('phase II')”? Are we looking for data that is extreme but not too extreme?

My greatest pleasure to have worked with the amazing editor @meharpist.bsky.social, the excellent reviewers, and the awesome editorial team at Nature on our paper!! Thrilled to share our research!

Mary Elizabeth Sutherland@meharpist.bsky.social · 2y ago

How can we increase the replicability of brain-wide association studies in a rigorous way? A new @natureportfolio.bsky.social study by @kaidikang.bsky.social et al describes the aspects of study design that improve the replicability of BWAS studies 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08260-9

How can we increase the replicability of brain-wide association studies in a rigorous way? A new @natureportfolio.bsky.social study by @kaidikang.bsky.social et al describes the aspects of study design that improve the replicability of BWAS studies 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08260-9

Study design features increase replicability in brain-wide association studies - Nature

Optimizing study design is critical for increasing standardized effect sizes and replicability, and the features that increase replicability in cross-sectional and longitudinal brain-wide association ...

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✨Our paper is out in Nature today! ✨ In this work, we investigated how we can leverage study designs to improve the replicability of brain-wide association studies (BWAS) 👇👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Study design features increase replicability in brain-wide association studies - Nature

Optimizing study design is critical for increasing standardized effect sizes and replicability, and the features that increase replicability in cross-sectional and longitudinal brain-wide association ...

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Thank you @roselynechauvin.bsky.social sky.social and @ndosenbach.bsky.social for this awesome Nature News & Views on our work!

Roselyne Chauvin@roselynechauvin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great conversations with @ndosenbach.bsky.social while preparing this Nature News & Views on the new Kang et al. Ready to have the same with everyone here. Thoughts? What other practice should be investigated to help BWAS reproducibility? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Vanderbilt PhD candidate Kaidi Kang @kaidikang.bsky.social is 1st author of a new paper in Nature, with associate profs Simon Vandekar (PhD @dbei-upenn.bsky.social) & Ran Tao (PhD @uncchapelhill.bsky.social), PhD candidates Jiangmei Xiong & Megan Jones... (1/2) news.vumc.org/2024/11/27/n...

New research points way to more reliable brain studies

A new study in Nature identifies research strategies for tying brain function and structure to behavior and health.

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Thank you, Dr. Fair! It was really a rewarding experience for me to collaborate with your team from #MIDB! @drdamienfair.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @bart-larsen.bsky.social Thank you for all your efforts and expertise you put into this work; they truly made this work better!

Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations @kaidikang.bsky.social et al on their paper in Nature. Also proud of the team at #MIDB in the support! @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @bart-larsen.bsky.social and more! If you are interested in optimizing study designs, take a look, it's a great read! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi. Just joined bluesky 😋