I love me a good orthogonal contrast! But I've come to appreciate having to specify the focal explanator in the `variables` argument. It forces me to answer the "what is your estimand?" question explicitly. I can't just compare a bunch of weighted means anymore! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ps let me bring along a bit of shameless self promotion, with our #risk #prediction #model Manto for late life #depression at manto.unife.it please use it and give me feedback

I'm increasingly passionate about #computational and #Bayesian methods, #brms, #rstats, #causalinference, mostly thanks to @rmcelreath.bsky.social course
Here sure looks like g'ole days twitter... hope to engage positively with such an interesting population and learn as much as I did there...