Nate Phillips
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Nate Phillips
@nphillips36.bsky.social
UGA Clinical Psych PhD student. Interested in personality, externalizing behaviors, open science, and methods.
Hey Philipp, what’s your email? I can send it your way
October 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Lol 100 percent. I feel similarly when diving into this literature and posted this a little while ago hoping for some clarity (and got crickets)

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For the quanty folks: Any go-to readings comparing approaches to modeling nonlinearity? Seeing more on splines, fractional polynomials, etc., but struggling to find clear head-to-head comparisons or discussions of tradeoffs.
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Not sure if this is the type of work you're looking for, but I read this one recently and found it helpful! Interested to see what other folks recommend bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A review of spline function procedures in R - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background With progress on both the theoretical and the computational fronts the use of spline modelling has become an established tool in statistical regression analysis. An important issue in splin...
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September 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This one and McCabe et al 2022 from @kevinmking.bsky.social's group are both awesome in thinking about the interpretability of these types of effects
August 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Nate Phillips
We don't really think one will be able to cleanly divide the personality disorders from Axis I disorders. We argue (following Lilienfeld's writing on psychopathology's distinction from normality) that it is a Roschian construct such that there won't be an easy way to cleave PDs from other disorders.
August 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yeah, that checking the box was my intuition, too. Not surprising that these types of cases are pretty fringe though
July 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thanks for the response! Out of curiosity, how are y’all coding it if the raw data is coupled with open code showing the pipeline from raw data to clean data (as described in the manuscript)?
July 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM