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Draft of book entitled An Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science by Nicenboim, Schad, Vasishth
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Error in chapter 4.1.2 (centering `load`) #7

Closed awellis closed 3 years ago

awellis commented 3 years ago

There is a problem in 4.1.2: after centering the cognitive load variable. This results in c_load = 0 for all observations, and leads to an estimate of around 0 for the regression coefficient

## Population-Level Effects: 
##           Estimate Est.Error l-95% CI u-95% CI Rhat Bulk_ESS Tail_ESS
## Intercept   701.35     22.53   657.27   745.91 1.00     3698     2707
## c_load        0.48    103.50  -202.44   196.80 1.00     3982     2682
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bnicenboim commented 3 years ago

Thanks, it's fixed in the new version that we'll release in a couple of weeks