Which of the following information below model output (last paragraph, not that one about uncertainty intervals) do you find useful/helpful and think it's worth printing? It's printed once per session. Should some/all information moved into the docs, or kept in output? #easystats - ThreadSky

easystats.bsky.social • 124 days ago

Which of the following information below model output (last paragraph, not that one about uncertainty intervals) do you find useful/helpful and think it's worth printing? It's printed once per session. Should some/all information moved into the docs, or kept in output? #easystats

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johnmackintosh.bsky.social•124 days ago

As a non-statistician I find the messages on both left hand side images helpful.

profandyfield.com•124 days ago

I’ve spoken to Dom about this - I’m wary of interpretation stuff in general because it encourages not thinking for yourself, but at the very least hide it by default and have an argument like help=T to print it.

easystats.bsky.social•124 days ago

Yes, interpretation could better be moved to the docs. Question is, since some statistical packages report both, say, log-odds and odds ratios, it might be helpful to tell users that there's an exponentiate-option.

easystats.bsky.social•124 days ago

Or that for log-responses, the raw coefficient (a coefficient of -0.2 means ~20% decrease) is less accurate than exponentiating it and interpret the ratio (which is exp(-0.2) ~ 0.82 ~ 18% decrease).

profandyfield.com•124 days ago

Yeah, but I’m not convinced that this is the job of software. Also it’s potentially annoying for more experienced users.

profandyfield.com•124 days ago

An argument that allows users to request help/verbose output seems like a decent compromise.

stefanforfan.bsky.social•124 days ago

I think it's nice to "warn" about exponentiating in both cases but I don't think the function should be giving interpretations. That should go in the docs, imo. I also think it's nice to warn about large coefficients.

vincentab.bsky.social•123 days ago

I agree with this. {easystats} already has a {report} package for this kind of stuff. By default, I think that {parameters} should only print the quantities explicitly requested, and not give advice unless the quantities are obviously misleading.

easystats.bsky.social•124 days ago

Sounds reasonable!

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