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Yajuan Si, James Wagner, and Ron Kessler write:
The traditional use of high-quality probability samples to carry out psychiatric epidemiological surveys of the household population is facing increasing financial and operational challenges. Surveys from nonprobability a...
Back in 1997, programmer and open-source activist Eric Raymond wrote an online essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, making the case for open-source software development, using Linux as an example:
Linux is ...
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...
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...
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...
