One of my New Year's resolutions was to be more active on social media again. Why not begin telling my tiny audience about my R package that was recently accepted to CRAN? The goal of `ivd` is to facilitate random effects selection with a spike-and-slab prior on the scale part of MELSMs.

Researchers study long developmental spans using accelerated longitudinal designs (ALDs). Fitting parametric growth or change score models imposes strong assumptions. We use functional data analysis to nonparametrically model ALDs in continuous time.
Check out the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I've found myself more and more interested in, and teaching about collider bias. But I think for many it's pretty unintuitive and hard generate examples of. I'm trying out a new example in my course next week. We'll see how it goes. If you have tips or good examples, let me know!

West-coast (ish) Quant-Psych(ometric) friends! Ben Domingue and I are organizing a small conference to be held in Davis in June. Please apply to attend, we're going to have so much fun.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I worked on this project during my undergrad at UNC, and seeing it come to life as a preprint feels surreal. I feel incredibly proud to have contributed to such a remarkable project. Check it out and let us know your thoughts!

Looking forward to the @philsci.bsky.social conference this week where I will be standing next to this poster, in which my friend Hana and I ponder the concept of a "true parameter" in statistical modeling (zoom in here: shorturl.at/91gm5) #philsci