Influence.ME

Influence.ME: Simple Analysis

With the introduction of our new package for influential data influence.ME, I’m currently writing a manual for the package. This manual will address topics for both the experienced, and the inexperienced users. I will also present much of the content …

Today I presented influence.ME at the useR! conference in Rennes. Influence.ME is an R package for detecting influential data in mixed models. I developed this package together with Ben Pelzer and Manfred te Grotenhuis. More information about influence.ME can be …

Just recently, I was contacted by a researcher who wanted to use influence.ME to obtain model estimates from which iteratively some data was deleted. In his case, observations were nested within an area, but there were very unequal numbers of …

Currently preparing a presentation on analyzing influential data in mixed effects models myself, my eye fell on an article in which important claims on racial prejudice were refuted. An important aspect of the criticism on existing work, is that in …

Introducing Influence.ME: Tools for detecting influential data in mixed models

I’m highly excited to announce that influence.ME is now available. Influence.ME is a new software package for R, providing statistical tools for detecting influential data in mixed models. It has been developed by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Ben Pelzer, and Manfred te …

The organizing committee of the useR! 2009 conference just informed me, that my submission for presenting my extension package influence.ME, has been accepted! Influence.ME is a new R package that I’m currently developing, with the indispensable help of Ben Pelzer …

Curving Normality

Curving Normality is an academic website and blog maintained by Rense Nieuwenhuis.

Rense is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institue for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) of the University of Twente.

His work is forthcoming in the Journal of Marriage and Family and the European Sociological Review.

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