Daniel 🕹️

@strengejacke.de

He/she/it - 's' muss mit. We're lower than the world! R easystats project: https://easystats.github.io/easystats/

Curaçao fans were in a fantastic mood even after their defeat against Germany—and then, the German Ballermann music started playing in Houston 🙈 Horrible...

The biggest hurdle in switching from SPSS to R is thinking in programming logic. Instead of single datasets or temporary outputs, R treats everything as an object. To master this mindset, I highly recommend Andy’s video series - especially "Creating an Object" and "What is a function?" #rstats

Prof Andy Field@profandyfield.com · 3mo ago

There's also `creating objects in R`, but that one doesn't involve cake and I look really misreable in the thumbnail. youtu.be/i894fWOkmEw

Is there a term for this kind of approach, which maybe also include "simpler" analyses, like the general use of EMMs or comparisons and alike? I always use "pairwise comparisons" as a synonym, because that is what more people know. What I'm actually referring to is a "post-estimation framework" /1

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 12mo ago

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities

Abstract
Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).