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Viet Hung Nguyen Cao
@ncviethung.bsky.social
Ph.D. student (Political Science) @waseda_univ | International security, territorial disputes, public opinions, survey experiments
Personal website: ncviethung.github.io
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To war or not to war: backing down after a fait accompli in Japan - cup.org/41Tzyx8

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March 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Prior specification is one of the hardest tasks in Bayesian modeling.

In our new paper, we (Florence Bockting, @stefanradev.bsky.social and me) develop a method for expert prior elicitation using generative neural networks and simulation-based learning.

arxiv.org/abs/2411.15826
Expert-elicitation method for non-parametric joint priors using normalizing flows
We propose an expert-elicitation method for learning non-parametric joint prior distributions using normalizing flows. Normalizing flows are a class of generative models that enable exact, single-step...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)
Full Luxury Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with brms
jebyrnes.github.io
December 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Woohoo, our paper is live!

This haiku summarizes it best:

Raw model results?
Stop! Hard to understand! Use
{marginaleffects}
Our JSS article is out!

And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned.

www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
December 2, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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New Quarto template: "quarto-academic-typst"
I created a Quarto + Typst template for academic documents. The design is inspired by
@andrew.heiss.phd 's hikmah-academic-quarto and @kjhealy.co 's LaTeX template.

The demo and code are available here:
github.com/kazuyanagimo...

#quarto #typst
November 24, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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If you're interested in trying out LLMs in #rstats but don't know where to begin, I've added a few two vignettes to elmer: elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/elm... and elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/pro...
Getting started with elmer
elmer.tidyverse.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Could Roblox radicalize your teenager? Read this @3streamsblog.bsky.social post by MSIRA post-baccalaureate fellow Johnjairo Fernandez-Dearcia on a recent article published in Political Psychology: medium.com/3streams/cou...
Could Roblox radicalize your teenager?
No, but a recent study explores how online gaming and extremism connect.
medium.com
November 7, 2024 at 4:20 PM