Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🍁 πŸƒ

@mzloteanu
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Lecturer Psych&Crim @KingsCollegeLon | Deception Detection; Emotions; JDM | Open Science; R; Bayes | @ukrepro ReproTea & StatsTea | #statstab | πŸ‡·πŸ‡΄ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸŒ
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Interests#rstats #bayesian #dataviz #psychology #metapsych #openresearch #openscience
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-637X
Figuring Stuff Out (stats blog)https://mzloteanu.substack.com/

#statstab #475 {tinyplot} A lightweight extension of the base R graphics

Thoughts: Cool package for easy plotting of simple data.

#dataviz #ggplot #rstats #r #plots #figures #graphs

https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/index.html

tinyplot

#statstab #474 Linear Models with Heterogeneous Coefficients

Thoughts: Sometimes you need more complicated models even if identification gets messy.

#heterogeneity #modelling #nonlinear #economics #econometrics

https://vladislav-morozov.github.io/econometrics-heterogeneity/linear/linear-introduction.html

2  Intro: Linear Models with Heterogeneous Coefficients – Econometrics with Unobserved Heterogeneity

Explore linear models with heterogeneous coefficients, identification challenges, and econometric estimation techniques in this advanced lecture series.

Econometrics with Unobserved Heterogeneity

#statstab #473 Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews

Thoughts: An interesting proposition for when you don't have good data for a meta-analysis.

#synthesis #metaanalysis #systematicreview

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l6890

#statstab #472 Practical Bayesian Inference in Neuroscience: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying
and Embrace the Distribution

Thoughts: Good intro to bayesian inference.

#bayesian #likelihood #tutorial

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.19.567743v2.full.pdf

#statstab #471 Give Your Hypotheses Space!

Thoughts: "each hypothesis requires its own model" + "Only interpret the output for your exposure of interest"

#causalinference #modelling #hypothesis #tutorial #confounding #mbias

https://brian-lookabaugh.github.io/website-brianlookabaugh/blog/2025/mutual-adjustment/

Give Your Hypotheses Space! – Brian Lookabaugh

It’s tempting to throw a bunch of variables of interest into a model and evaluate each variable’s β€˜impact’ on the outcome, but proceed at your own caution! Check this blog out to see why that approach is most likely not the best idea…

#statstab #470 {nmfspalette} palette according to NOAA Fisheries branding

Thoughts: Idk how I came across this package, but it has some ok colour combos.

#ggplot #dataviz #color #colour #themes #fish

https://nmfs-ost.github.io/nmfspalette/

A Color Palette for NOAA Fisheries

This is a package that implements a color palette in line with the NOAA Fisheries Branding Guide.

#statstab #469 Significance tests, p-values, and falsificationism

Thoughts: An "interesting" thread of philosophy of science and debating.

#discussion #debate #pvalue #falsification #nhst

https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/significance-tests-p-values-and-falsificationism/

Significance tests, p-values, and falsificationism

This thread takes its inspiration from the recent discussions in social science and statistics about significance tests, what they’re good for, whether p-values should be banned, and what all of that has to do with general scientific methodology, particularly the Popperian one called falsificationism. See this Twitter thread for a random place to jump into the discussion. That place, however, was where @f2harrell suggested we create a thread over here. I’ll start this thread off, if I may, with...

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New job offer at ZPID Trier:

Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent). https://leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7

Nice to see another job ad that expects "Adherence to the principles of open scienceβ€œ.

#fedihire #Metascience #OpenScience

Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d)

onlyfy.jobs

#statstab #468 Why Summaries of Research on Psychological Theories are Often Uninterpretable

Thoughts: psychology uses significance testing backwards relative to hard sciences.

#meehl #theory #criticism #falsification #popper #methods #nhst #psychology

https://scienceplusplus.org/metascience/assets/Meehl1990_1985.pdf

#statstab #467 Hypothesis testing, model selection, model comparison some thoughts

Thoughts: An excellent (but too short) discussion on bayesian inference.

#bayesian #bayesfactor #modelselection #inference #NBHT #BF #ROPE #primer

https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/hypothesis-testing-model-selection-model-comparison-some-thoughts/19163

Hypothesis testing, model selection, model comparison - some thoughts

EDIT: This was an attempt to write guidance. It turns out I stepped quite far from my depth and the text sounded much more conclusive than it should. I think it is correct to currently just classify it as β€œsome thoughts” rather than a guidance. I still think it is useful to have a place to list possible approaches, but the text definitely needs more work. Sorry for the confusion. Coming from classical statistics background Stan users often want to be able to test some sort of null hypothesis. S...

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