Dave Freestone
@dfreestone.bsky.social
Researcher at Equip Health. I study eating disorders and their treatment. Used to study timing, learning, and decision making.
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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Currently reading Stigler’s History of Statistics again (and loving it). Anyone know of a similar book for 1900-1960 period. Efron & Hastie, is great but it’s a different kind of book. Apparwntly Lehmann wrote specifically about Neyman v Fisher but I’m looking for other options too #stats #statsky
July 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up!
bookdown.org/content/3686/
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#rstats
bookdown.org/content/3686/
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#rstats
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse
bookdown.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up!
bookdown.org/content/3686/
1/3
#rstats
bookdown.org/content/3686/
1/3
#rstats
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This is a fantastic list of papers on properly dealing with control variables (and other related methodological issues) in social science (and #polisky specifically)! I put it all in a public Zotero group library here www.zotero.org/groups/59433...
April 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is a fantastic list of papers on properly dealing with control variables (and other related methodological issues) in social science (and #polisky specifically)! I put it all in a public Zotero group library here www.zotero.org/groups/59433...
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I haven't read many recent textbooks, but I like Bouton's "Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis".
If you're interested in something more provocative, read Gallistel's "The Organization of Learning".
If you're interested in something more provocative, read Gallistel's "The Organization of Learning".
December 13, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I haven't read many recent textbooks, but I like Bouton's "Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis".
If you're interested in something more provocative, read Gallistel's "The Organization of Learning".
If you're interested in something more provocative, read Gallistel's "The Organization of Learning".
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I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).
December 13, 2024 at 9:49 PM
I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).
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When did we allow "causal inference" to mostly mean "causal inference with observational data"? At least that's how it seems to me. As someone who has to think a lot about inference with experimental *and* observational data, I think this is short sighted.
December 5, 2024 at 8:10 AM
When did we allow "causal inference" to mostly mean "causal inference with observational data"? At least that's how it seems to me. As someone who has to think a lot about inference with experimental *and* observational data, I think this is short sighted.
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New Course: Prediction for (Individualized) Decision-making
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/06/n...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/06/n...
New Course: Prediction for (Individualized) Decision-making | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
December 7, 2024 at 12:54 AM
New Course: Prediction for (Individualized) Decision-making
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/06/n...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/06/n...
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Imagine finding out @vincentab.bsky.social @noahgreifer.bsky.social and @andrew.heiss.phd wrote a thing and it's open access 👀
Awesome paper about {marginaleffects} R/python packages in JOSS (which needs to join Bsky)
www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
Awesome paper about {marginaleffects} R/python packages in JOSS (which needs to join Bsky)
www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
How to Interpret Statistical Models Using marginaleffects for R and Python by Vincent Arel-Bundock, Noah Greifer, Andrew Heiss
<p>The parameters of a statistical model can sometimes be difficult to interpret substantively, especially when that model includes nonlinear components, interactions, or transformations. Analysts who...
www.jstatsoft.org
December 1, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Imagine finding out @vincentab.bsky.social @noahgreifer.bsky.social and @andrew.heiss.phd wrote a thing and it's open access 👀
Awesome paper about {marginaleffects} R/python packages in JOSS (which needs to join Bsky)
www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
Awesome paper about {marginaleffects} R/python packages in JOSS (which needs to join Bsky)
www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
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I’m looking for psychology papers that use a rigorous causal inference approach with observational data. I’d like to find some great examples to showcase in my teaching.
Any recommendations?
#stats
@rmcelreath.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Any recommendations?
#stats
@rmcelreath.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
November 28, 2024 at 11:28 AM
I’m looking for psychology papers that use a rigorous causal inference approach with observational data. I’d like to find some great examples to showcase in my teaching.
Any recommendations?
#stats
@rmcelreath.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Any recommendations?
#stats
@rmcelreath.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
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🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023
This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
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Currently working my way through @julianschuess.bsky.social and @pselb.bsky.social's "Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference" for our journal club and so far it is a thing of beauty! Very clear language, clear arguments, meeting readers where they are etc
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 8, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Currently working my way through @julianschuess.bsky.social and @pselb.bsky.social's "Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference" for our journal club and so far it is a thing of beauty! Very clear language, clear arguments, meeting readers where they are etc
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London
Closes December 4th
Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Closes December 4th
Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Assistant (fixed term)
We seek a predoctoral research assistant to join the Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham on the Innovate UK-funded project “GEMINI: Platform Informatics For Data-driven Neuromodulation”. ...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
November 8, 2024 at 10:19 AM
We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London
Closes December 4th
Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Closes December 4th
Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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A guide to BlueSky for Scientists
* Common questions
* Links to resources
* An explanation of feeds
* A directory of science feeds
Please share with scientists on BlueSky!
Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social
🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
* Common questions
* Links to resources
* An explanation of feeds
* A directory of science feeds
Please share with scientists on BlueSky!
Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social
🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
BlueSky for Scientists
BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
blueskyscience.steveharoz.com
August 18, 2023 at 1:04 PM
A guide to BlueSky for Scientists
* Common questions
* Links to resources
* An explanation of feeds
* A directory of science feeds
Please share with scientists on BlueSky!
Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social
🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
* Common questions
* Links to resources
* An explanation of feeds
* A directory of science feeds
Please share with scientists on BlueSky!
Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social
🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
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Making sense of marginal effects - posit conf 2024
YouTube video by Posit PBC
youtu.be
October 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Computational processes of simultaneous learning of stochasticity and volatility in humans
#neuroscience #compneuro #stats
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #compneuro #stats
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Computational processes of simultaneous learning of stochasticity and volatility in humans - Nature Communications
Adaptive learning is difficult in noisy environments, yet people often succeed. Here, the authors show that humans do this by distinguishing between two easily confused types of noise—volatility and s...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Computational processes of simultaneous learning of stochasticity and volatility in humans
#neuroscience #compneuro #stats
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #compneuro #stats
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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the talk was a plea to slow down, read more, think more, focus on study quality rather than analytic wizardry, and to find ways to build more cumulative, progressive science.
i don't have any answers, but it was fun..!
drive.google.com/file/d/1Wega...
i don't have any answers, but it was fun..!
drive.google.com/file/d/1Wega...
holmes-n-2024c.pdf
drive.google.com
October 16, 2024 at 6:32 AM
the talk was a plea to slow down, read more, think more, focus on study quality rather than analytic wizardry, and to find ways to build more cumulative, progressive science.
i don't have any answers, but it was fun..!
drive.google.com/file/d/1Wega...
i don't have any answers, but it was fun..!
drive.google.com/file/d/1Wega...
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October 14, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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Also, I’m looking for a faculty job! I’m a behavioral neuroscientist interested in the intersection between reinforcement learning and basal ganglia function in the context of both drug and non-drug rewards. Calcium imaging, optogenetics, behavior, + lots of teaching experience.
October 14, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Also, I’m looking for a faculty job! I’m a behavioral neuroscientist interested in the intersection between reinforcement learning and basal ganglia function in the context of both drug and non-drug rewards. Calcium imaging, optogenetics, behavior, + lots of teaching experience.
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What’s important is being thoughtful and transparent about what those assumptions are (and not pretending that they don’t exist).
academic.oup.com/jssam/articl...
academic.oup.com/jssam/articl...
Hansen Lecture 2022: The Evolution of the Use of Models in Survey Sampling
Abstract. Morris Hansen made seminal contributions to the early development of sampling theory, including convincing government survey administrators to us
academic.oup.com
April 26, 2024 at 9:16 PM
What’s important is being thoughtful and transparent about what those assumptions are (and not pretending that they don’t exist).
academic.oup.com/jssam/articl...
academic.oup.com/jssam/articl...
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I guess we’re doing this again. It is enough for LLMs to be incredibly powerful and flexible tools for analyzing and summarizing text. We don’t have to fool ourselves into thinking that they can reconstruct the mental processes of the humans who produced the text. They are already impressive!
October 10, 2024 at 11:58 AM
I guess we’re doing this again. It is enough for LLMs to be incredibly powerful and flexible tools for analyzing and summarizing text. We don’t have to fool ourselves into thinking that they can reconstruct the mental processes of the humans who produced the text. They are already impressive!
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google 2012: here's how to make tacos
google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME
google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin
google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME
google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin
October 8, 2024 at 4:41 PM
google 2012: here's how to make tacos
google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME
google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin
google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME
google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin