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You can read this post from Danielle Navarro.

I also recommend Section 7.6 of Bayesian Data Analysis, which extends an example of Rubin whe...

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This post is from Bob.

Drift-diffusion models

Whew. The cdf function for the seven-parameter drift-diffusion model was just merged. The pdf was merged a few months ago. This is a big deal. These pdfs and cdfs are used for in decision-time models in cognitive psychology. There’s a really nice href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK583719/fig...

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Hold onto your hats, because 2026 promises to bring a whole slew of improvements to MCMC for continuously differentiable densities. The really awesome part is that all of these improvements are orthogonal, so they stack. I’m going to list the ones we know work first, followed by a couple in which we have high hopes.

I’m currently working on implementing all this in a C...

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Joshua Brooks points us to this research article by Brooke Macnamara and Alexander Burgoyne, “Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement? A systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for best practices,” which states:

Accordin...

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Registration for StanCon 2026, 17-21 August, in Uppsala, Sweden, is now open! You can already register and submit abstracts for contributions. Our first keynote speaker will be announced soon.

New this StanCon: In addition to tutorials, we are introducing workshops. These are structured similarly to workshops at other conferences. We will provide three-hour rooms on th...

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