Daniel Lüdecke

Dr. Daniel Lüdecke

Institute of Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
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19Years (2008-Present)

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21 April 2021 in Journal of Open Source Software
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Daniel Lüdecke
MBMattan S. Ben-Shachar
Mattan S. Ben-Shachar
IPIndrajeet Patil
Indrajeet Patil
PWPhilip D. Waggoner
Philip D. Waggoner
DMDominique Makowski
Dominique Makowski

29 June 2018 in Journal of Open Source Software
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Daniel Lüdecke
Results of regression models, like estimates, are typically presented as tables that are easy to understand. Sometimes pure estimates are not helpful and difficult to interpret. This is especially true for interaction terms in logistic regression or even more complex models, or transformed terms (quadratic or cubic terms, polynomials, splines), where the estimates are no longer interpretable in a direct way. In such cases, marginal effects are far easier to understand. In particular, the visualization of marginal effects makes it possible to intuitively get the idea of how predictors and outcome are associated, even for complex models.

23 December 2020 in Journal of Open Source Software
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MBMattan S. Ben-Shachar
Mattan S. Ben-Shachar
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Daniel Lüdecke
DMDominique Makowski
Dominique Makowski

13 August 2019 in Journal of Open Source Software
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Dominique Makowski
MBMattan S. Ben-Shachar
Mattan S. Ben-Shachar
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Daniel Lüdecke

10 December 2019 in Frontiers in Psychology
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DMDominique Makowski
Dominique Makowski
MBMattan S. Ben-Shachar
Mattan S. Ben-Shachar
SH Annabel ChenSH Annabel Chen
SH Annabel Chen
DLDaniel Lüdecke
Daniel Lüdecke
Turmoil has engulfed psychological science. Causes and consequences of the reproducibility crisis are in dispute. With the hope of addressing some of its aspects, Bayesian methods are gaining increasing attention in psychological science. Some of their advantages, as opposed to the frequentist framework, are the ability to describe parameters in probabilistic terms and explicitly incorporate prior knowledge about them into the model. These issues are crucial in particular regarding the current debate about statistical significance. Bayesian methods are not necessarily the only remedy against incorrect interpretations or wrong conclusions, but there is an increasing agreement that they are one of the keys to avoid such fallacies. Nevertheless, its flexible nature is its power and weakness, for there is no agreement about what indices of “significance” should be computed or reported. This lack of a consensual index or guidelines, such as the frequentist p-value, further contributes to the unnecessary opacity that many non-familiar readers perceive in Bayesian statistics. Thus, this study describes and compares several Bayesian indices, provide intuitive visual representation of their “behavior” in relationship with common sources of variance such as sample size, magnitude of effects and also frequentist significance. The results contribute to the development of an intuitive understanding of the values that researchers report, allowing to draw sensible recommendations for Bayesian statistics description, critical for the standardization of scientific reporting.