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František Bartoš
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PhD Candidate | Psychological Methods | UvA Amsterdam | interested in statistics, meta-analysis, and publication bias | once flipped a coin too many times
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We released two preprints describing the JASP Meta-Analytic functionality in detail.

Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part I: Classical Approaches (arxiv.org/abs/2509.09845)

Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part II: Bayesian Approaches (arxiv.org/abs/2509.09850)
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"Always plot your data" -- an example of using descriptives *before* measuring capability of an instrument. We intend to have regular posts demonstrating how JASP can be useful for quality control and lean six sigma.

www.jasp-services.com/jasp-for-qua...
JASP for Quality Control, Example 1: Descriptives (aka "Always Plot Your Data") - JASP Services BV
To showcase how JASP can be used for statistical quality control we initiate a series of blog posts in which JASP is used to execute key statistical tasks. In this series’ inaugural post, I will go ov...
www.jasp-services.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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We just started a website highlighting articles that would make good candidates for a Robustness Report.

🌐 Check out the website: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org

📄 Read our first blog post: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org/inaugural-po...
Journal of Robustness Reports
The Journal of Robustness Reports The Journal of Robustness Reports (JRR) is a diamond open-access journal that focuses on the reanalysis of high-impact empirical findings. JRR contains collections of...
www.journalofrobustnessreports.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Simulation studies have a conflict of interest problem. The same team:
- develops a new method
- designs a simulation study to evaluate it
However, the new method has to show good performance to get published.

We propose living synthetic benchmarks to address the issue (doi.org/10.48550/arX...).
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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New blog post! Why companies win by investing in open-source software. With zebra-painted cows, of course.

www.jasp-services.com/why-companie...
Why Companies Win by Investing in Open-Source Software - JASP Services BV
In 2025, the IgNobel prize in Biology went to research on “whether cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid being bitten by flies“. Suppose a fictitious company, ZebraCows, wishes to exploit th...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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We are pleased to have
@fbartos.bsky.social
join us today, Tuesday, September 30th, 11am (EST) to talk about Bayesian Hypothesis testing! This is followed by a workshop on using JASP for statistics around 12:10pm. The zoom is open to public with details in the flyer!
@PsychPrinceton
September 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Simonsohn has now posted a blog response to our recent paper about the poor statistical properties of the P curve. @clintin.bsky.social and I are finishing up a less-technical paper that will serve as a response. But I wanted to address a meta-issue *around* this that may clarify some things. 1/x
Would p-curve work if you dropped a piano on it?
datacolada.org/129
September 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Sage created a 44-second promo video for our book "Discovering Statistics Using JASP". Blog post: jasp-stats.org/2025/09/24/d...

The video itself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP0N...
"Discovering Statistics Using JASP": The Promo Video - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software
The shiny new textbook “Discovering Statistics Using JASP” now has a 44-second promo video on YouTube, courtesy of Sage. What I like about the video is that it shows some of the pages, so you get an o...
jasp-stats.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Can anyone point me to the simulation studies showing that p-curve performs well under realistic conditions? And any done by someone else than pcurve authors? As far as I know, p-curve fails horrendously as long as any heterogeneity is involved...

doi.org/10.1177/1745...
doi.org/10.1002/jrsm...
September 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
We released two preprints describing the JASP Meta-Analytic functionality in detail.

Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part I: Classical Approaches (arxiv.org/abs/2509.09845)

Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part II: Bayesian Approaches (arxiv.org/abs/2509.09850)
September 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Z-curve plot is a new visual model fit diagnostic for #metaanalysis with an emphasis on #publicationbias. In contrast to funnel plots, z-curve plots
- visualize the distribution of z-statistics (where bias usually occurs)
- compare the fit of multiple models simultaneously
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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New paper for anyone working with data:
Better data viz - for free, in few clicks.

Below, all N = 111, M = 0.04, SD = 0.27.
One-sided t-tests vs. 0 yield: t(110) = 1.67, p = .049.

Use raincloud plots. Or risk wrong conclusions!
Plot w/ @jaspstats.bsky.social today!

🧪 📊 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky

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August 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: evidence from 350,757 flips.

That's the title of our paper summarizing ~650 hours of coin-tossing experimentation just published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
doi.org/10.1080/0162...
August 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It is a bit funny seing many people outraged about p-curve, after the well deserved critique by Moorey, but completely unfazed about the still dominant practice of using funnel plots and fail-safe n to claim absence of publication bias.
With common defense "that’s how other studies did it before"...
August 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I'm excited that our preregistration template for simulation studies is now available on OSF!
See below for a brief interview with the Center for Open Science about the template and why we created it..
July 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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@fbartos.bsky.social @maxmaier.bsky.social‬ & EJ Wagenmakers have extended RoBMA with 3-level publication bias-adjusted model-averaged meta-regression models in R along with the usual code-free and intuitive @jaspstats.bsky.social implementation. Nerdy details are osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
July 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The new version of JASP (0.95) containing another significant update to the Meta-Analysis module is out.

You can perform state-of-the-art Bayesian publication bias-adjusted meta-regression in only a few clicks. A couple of additional clicks get you publication-ready figures!
July 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We finally extended robust Bayesian meta-analysis to multilevel settings. Now, you can fit 3-level publication bias-adjusted model-averaged meta-regression models in R (and in about a week in @jaspstats.bsky.social too!)
July 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Martin Hayden from LearnSixSigma.co.uk shares his experience of using JASP for quality control -- a free and open-source statistical software for which we offer enterprise-level services. Check it out, maybe you will switch to using @jaspstats.bsky.social too!
June 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Big team effort & thx collaborators

Led by @adamfinnemann.bsky.social w/@noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social, L. Speyer, @orestiszavlis.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social, R. Wiers, Han van der Maas, Chris Sibley, Sverre Johnson, @mahelmich.bsky.social & A. Hoffart

authors.elsevier.com/c/1lF9zbXYiy...
authors.elsevier.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Just a reminder that #ESMARConf2025 is starting tomorrow! This is a free online conference about evidence synthesis and meta-analysis using #Rstats. Further details can be found here: esmarconf.org/2025/
2025 - ESMARConf
esmarconf.org
June 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I will teach my advanced #MetaAnalysis course this year (September 24-26, 2025):

www.wvbauer.com/doku.php/cou...

Since my regular meta-analysis course is also overdue, I decided to extend the advanced course by an extra day to cover the standard methods more thoroughly.
Course: Advanced Meta-Analysis [Wolfgang Viechtbauer]
www.wvbauer.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A recently published meta-analysis in Nature Human Behaviour "found evidence supporting the efficacy of social comparison as a behaviour change technique in shaping behaviour in the desired direction".

I was curious, so I re-analyzed the manuscript, but the funnel plots below say it all.
May 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We started a company to provide enterprise-level support for open-source statistical software @jaspstats.bsky.social . Our website with the mission and offers just went online!

Is your business paying large licensing fees for statistical software? Are you looking for a change? Check it out!
May 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM