James E. Pustejovsky
jepusto.bsky.social
James E. Pustejovsky
@jepusto.bsky.social
Statistician interested in meta-analysis, data science, R, special education. Associate Professor at UW Madison. Also @jepusto@fediscience.org
https://jepusto.com
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August 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is an insightful and timely analysis. This point in the conclusions resonated
August 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A hearty congratulations to Dr. Bethany Hamilton Bhat (@bethanyhbhat.bsky.social‬) for defending her dissertation this morning! Her thesis is titled "Power Approximations for the Test of Study-Level Categorical Moderators in Meta-Regression with Dependent Effect Sizes."
June 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Incidentally, for the weighted least squares regression estimator, treating the weights as fixed gives an identical standard error: 6/
November 26, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Second, the weighted least squares regression estimator, which has a smaller SE of 770... 4/
November 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM
However, the standard errors from these estimators are different. Here's an illustration, made possible by @noahgreifer.bsky.social's recent updates to the WeightIt #rstats package. First, the IPW estimator, which has an SE of 781... 3/
November 26, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Our next talk in the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis SIG Online seminar series will be from Dr. Mike Cheung from the National University of Singapore, sharing wisdom on how to fit meta-analytic models in an SEM framework. It's coming up in just under two weeks, on Friday October 18th.
October 6, 2024 at 6:20 PM
#MetaAnalysis folks take note! The AERA SIG on Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis will be back with our online seminar series this Fall! We've got an awesome line-up over the next few months, starting (Fri 9/27) with Getting Meta-Analysis Done: A Panel Discussion with Experienced Reviewers.
September 17, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Prepping for a discussion about individual-participant data meta-analysis using large-scale educational assessments...
May 14, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Next week is the final entry of this season's Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis online seminar series. I'm so excited that we'll get to hear from Emma Hart, sharing findings from her innovative meta-analysis on fadeout of educational intervention effects.
May 9, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Hot on the heels of a great AERA2024 convention, the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis SIG will be hosting our next online seminar this Friday (4/19) featuring Dr. Matthew Grainger speaking on ESHackathon: Unlocking Evidence Synthesis Through Innovation.
April 16, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Coming up next week in the AERA Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis SIG online seminar series, we're looking forward to welcoming Zhipeng Hou from Northwestern University. Zhipeng will be presenting Enhancing Reliability in Automated Record Screening: A Resampling Algorithm
March 7, 2024 at 8:40 PM
I'm very excited to share that the AERA Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis SIG online seminar series will be back this Spring! Our first talk is coming up on Friday, February 16th with Dr. Marta Topor, speaking on Overcoming Barriers to Conducting Systematic Reviews of Non-intervention Research.
February 5, 2024 at 9:38 PM
AERA's Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis SIG has one more entry in our online seminar series before the year is out. This Friday, we'll be joined by Dr. Kaitlyn Fitzgerald, presenting Knowledge Mobilization and Lessons for Communicating Meta-Analytic Results. I'm *really* excited for this one!
December 4, 2023 at 2:11 PM
I may be a bit biased (or selectively reported), but I'm really looking forward to the next speaker in the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis SIG online seminar. Coming up in just under two weeks, František Bartoš speaking on Robust Bayesian Meta-Regression.
November 6, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Holy moly, am I looking forward to the next installment of the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis SIG online seminar!

SO excited that I'll get to introduce Dr. Julia Littell, speaking on the logic of generalization from systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
October 12, 2023 at 8:14 PM
September 19, 2023 at 1:47 PM
Here’s a painting of the defunct methodologist:
September 19, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Rereading Gelman & Shalizi (2012; www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/rese...) and found this zinger:
September 19, 2023 at 1:41 PM
Our first talk is from Dr. Alex Kale from the CS Department at University of Chicago, speaking on Designing for Epistemic Uncertainty in Research Synthesis. 2/
September 5, 2023 at 2:15 PM
It's back-to-school time for the kiddos, and back-to-research-synthesis time for AERA SIG on Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Our online seminar series will continue this Fall with four great talks from Alex Kale, Julia Littell, Frantisek Bartos, and Katie Fitzgerald. Free and open to all! 1/
September 5, 2023 at 2:12 PM