“Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded.”

Thank you.

Interesting! Can you post a DOI or link to Legge et al., 2025?

Despite the enormous body of literature generated (1,727 studies of 1,008 genes), ultimately no unequivocal associations emerged for either positional or functional candidate genes. -- adapted from Lege et al., 2025

Up to 2008 there were over 1700 published gene/schizophrenia association studies implicating over 1000 genes. Now none of these studies are viewed as useful. -- Legge et al., 2025

What a fascinating post-mortem this would make for a meta-science project.

#neuroscience #stats #metascience

I've made a Jamovi module for modern psychometric analysis using Rasch Measurement Theory, "easyRasch2jmv", that is available in Jamovi's library. The module implements simulation-based (dynamic) cutoff values for conditional item fit and residual correlations, amongst other things. #psychometrics

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If you are new to Rasch psychometrics, you will find a fair amount of resources and analysis examples here: pgmj.github.io/raschrvignet...

The "easyRasch2jmv" module currently contains only 5 of the functions from my package. I prioritized these functions to enable analysis of the 4 basic psychometric criteria:

- unidimensionality
- local independence of items
- ordered response category thresholds (monotonicity)
- invariance (no DIF)

Afaik, simulation-based cutoffs for these model fit metrics is not available in any other software, except my github-only R-package easyRasch. Some more details on the topic: pgmj.github.io/rasch_itemfit/ and pgmj.github.io/simcutoffs.h...

I've made a Jamovi module for modern psychometric analysis using Rasch Measurement Theory, "easyRasch2jmv", that is available in Jamovi's library. The module implements simulation-based (dynamic) cutoff values for conditional item fit and residual correlations, amongst other things. #psychometrics

Well, it sort of happens with proprietary software?

It used to be quite common to have some sort of licensing scheme to make money off your questionnaire.

Excellent choice. ~40mm is indeed the most useful focal lenght, imho. If need arises for a wide angle, the tiny pocket camera Ricoh GR would be an excellent companion.

True. If one chooses to have such an option, you can at least choose how to analyze those responses. They will not be a part of the ordinal response scale, but could be informative in other ways to understand who uses this (non-)response and when. And it won't confound the response scale.

Here is one. Note that you need PCM/RSM to evaluate category threshold monotonicity. Bourke-Taylor, Pallant, & Law (2014). Update on the Child’s Challenging Behaviour Scale following evaluation using Rasch analysis. Child: Care, Health and Development, 40(2), 242–249. doi.org/10.1111/cch....

Well yes, if you moved the response category ”to the side”, as one usually does if there is a ”don’t know” option included. When it is included amongst the ordered response categories that assess agreement, it becomes very difficult to interpret what the intended response is.

I will try to remember to post some references when at my computer tomorrow.

Avoid Likert-style with "neutral" middle options since it is often used as a "don't know/care" response, which breaks the ordinal structure.

Agree. And this can be useful: powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

The Horseman 612, is it the 120 back for 4x5 you refer to, or one of the cameras? I also have the Linhof (but only 65mm lens), and acquired a Horseman 612 back but haven't developed any film from it yet. Huge fan of the 6x12 format!

There are some recent papers using the MELS terminology that are nice. This one uses brms, as a bonus: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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“If people worldwide biked at rates of Dutch, avg 2.6 km per person per day, global emissions could fall by 686 million tonnes of CO2 annually, comparable to Canada’s total annual emissions … For short trips, cycling is often faster, cheaper, and healthier” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/07/o...

More books should show full workflows of how to apply methods.

Williams, McGillycuddy, Brooks, Bolker, Mizuno, Yang, Viechtbauer, Warton, Nakagawa: Meta-analysis with the glmmTMB R package https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04084 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.04084 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.04084

I think it is only "trained" on the marginaleffects.com website content.

Nice! Vilken modell?

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Our research group in Bern has been awarded two @snsf.ch project grants! We will hire a number of new postdocs and PhD students.

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Introducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola Rennie The ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works.

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉

An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊

Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

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