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#causaleffect — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. One of my favorite science blogs, the 100% CI, has published a new blog post: „Sometimes a #causaleffect is just a causal effect (regardless of how it’s mediated or moderated)“ (by Julia Rohrer).

    I like the opener: "It’s probably fair to say that many psychological researchers are somewhat confused about causal inference.“

    #CausalInference

  2. How statistical challenges … produce unreplicable #science
    osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ekmd
    "…when estimating a #causalEffect from data with a #multilevel structure, it is necessary to allow both the intercepts & effects to vary along each grouping structure. In practice, this is a challenge, 1st because we know of no #textbook that offers this recommendation; 2nd because including additional variance components to a model can make it less stable to fit… 3rd because modeling choices will still arise…"