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Aljoscha Rimpler

@aljoscharimpler.bsky.social

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PhD Student at Uni Groningen| Department Psychometrics and Statistics| Model Complexity in Psychology| Interaction Effects

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Aljoscha Rimpler @aljoscharimpler.bsky.social · Feb 12

A huge thanks to my supervisors @donvanraven.bsky.social & Henk Kiers for their guidance and support!

For a deeper dive into statistical interactions & model misspecification, check out our related preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Aljoscha Rimpler @aljoscharimpler.bsky.social · Feb 12

Excited to share that my first PhD paper got published! We explored the effects of correctly vs. failing to model true interactions in data. Can model misspecification lead to reversed conclusions? Which model generalizes better to a larger sample?

Read the article here: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

To interact or not to interact: The pros and cons of including interactions in linear regression models - Behavior Research Methods

Interaction effects are very common in the psychological literature. However, interaction effects are typically very small and often fail to replicate. In this study, we conducted a simulation compari...

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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · Jan 26

New preprint w/ the WARN-D team (incl. @eikofried.bsky.social @rayyantutunji.bsky.social, @aljoscharimpler.bsky.social & others): We explain our exploration of EMA items in data of ~600 individuals. We investigate distributions/changes over time/context/interindividual differences & more

Plot with four panels for variables cheerful, depressed, motivated, irritable. Each plot contains horizontal bar plots for the respective variable across 10 different activity categories.

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Aljoscha Rimpler @aljoscharimpler.bsky.social · Jan 12

Thank you both for your kind words. I had great guidance and it was a pleasure to be part of the team!