Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Himanshu Yadav, PhD

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Today Himanshu defended his dissertation. His dissertation consists of three published papers. 1. Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, Sebastian R...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

New paper: SEAM: An Integrated Activation-Coupled Model of Sentence Processing and Eye Movements in Reading.

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Michael Betancourt , a giant in the field of Bayesian statistical modeling, once indirectly pointed out to me ( in a podcast interview ) tha...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

Job opening: Postdoc position, starting 1 Oct 2023 (Vasishth lab, University of Potsdam, Germany)

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I am looking for a postdoc working in sentence processing (psycholinguistics); the position is at the TV-L 13 salary level. This is a teachi...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis: Video lectures now available on youtube

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These recordings are part of a set of videos that are available from the free four-week online course Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Applications open: The Seventh Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, 11-15 September 2023

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Applications are open (till 1st April 2023( for the seventh summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology, to be held ...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

Free MOOC course at openHPI.de: Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis (starts 25 Jan 2023)

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 Details here:  https://open.hpi.de/courses/bayesian-statistics2023
Thursday, June 02, 2022

New paper in Journal of Memory and Language: Share the code, not just the data

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Here is an important paper for the field of psycholionguistics that just came out in JML. It is led by Dr. Anna Laurinavichyute  and was co...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Summer School “Methods in Language Sciences” (16-20 August 2022, Ghent, Belgium): Registrations open

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I was asked to advertise this summer school (I will be teaching a 2.5 day course on linear mixed modeling, and will give a keynote lecture o...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Ever wondered how the probability of the null hypothesis being true changes given a significant result?

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TRIGGER WARNING: These simulations might fundamentally shake your belief system. USE WITH CARE. In a recently accepted paper in the open ...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

New(ish) paper: Share the code, not just the data: A case study of the reproducibility of JML articles published under the open data policy

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Here's an important new paper led by Dr.  Anna Laurinavichyute on the reproducibility of published analyses. This paper by commissioned...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Short course and keynote on statistical methods at Ghent Summer School on Methods in Language Sciences

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I will be teaching an in-person course on linear mixed modeling at the summer school at Ghent (below) August 2022. The summer school home pa...

New paper: Some right ways to analyze (psycho)linguistic data

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 New paper (under review):  Title: Some right ways to analyze (psycho)linguistic data Abstract : Much has been written on the abuse and misu...

Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, Sept. 12-16, 2022 (applications close April 1)

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The Sixth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology will be held in Potsdam, Germany, September 12-16, 2022 .  ...

New paper in Computational Brain and Behavior: Sample size determination in Bayesian Linear Mixed Models

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We've just had a paper accepted in Computational Brain and Behavior , an open access journal of the Society for Mathematical Psychology ...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

EMLAR 2022 tutorial on Bayesian methods

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 At EMLAR 2022 I will teach two sessions that will introduce Bayesian methods. Here is the abstract for the two sessions: EMLAR 2022: An in...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Review of Writing Science by Joshua Shiemel: Good advice on writing, but ignore his advice on statistical inference because it's just plain wrong

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These days I am quite obsessed with figuring out how to improve the writing that is coming out of my lab. My postdocs generally produce soli...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

New opinion paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: Data Assimilation in Dynamical Cognitive Science (Engbert et al.)

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 Here's a new opinion paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, by Ralf Engbert, Max Rabe, et al.  Link to paper: here
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Generating data from a uniform distribution using R, without using R's runif function

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Generating data from a uniform distribution using R, without using the runif function ...