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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar

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Michal Ben-Shachar

- Verified email at mail.biu.ac.il - Cited by 4773

[PDF][PDF] performance: An R package for assessment, comparison and testing of statistical models

D Lüdecke, MS Ben-Shachar, I Patil… - Journal of Open …, 2021 - pure.mpg.de
A crucial part of statistical analysis is evaluating a model’s quality and fit, or performance.
During analysis, especially with regression models, investigating the fit of models to data also …

[PDF][PDF] effectsize: Estimation of effect size indices and standardized parameters

MS Ben-Shachar, D Lüdecke… - Journal of Open Source …, 2020 - joss.theoj.org
In both theoretical and applied research, it is often of interest to assess the strength of an
observed association. This is typically done to allow the judgment of the magnitude of an effect (…

[PDF][PDF] bayestestR: Describing effects and their uncertainty, existence and significance within the Bayesian framework

D Makowski, MS Ben-Shachar… - Journal of Open Source …, 2019 - joss.theoj.org
The Bayesian framework for statistics is quickly gaining in popularity among scientists, for
reasons such as reliability and accuracy (particularly in noisy data and small samples), the …

The neural reality of syntactic transformations: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging

M Ben-Shachar, T Hendler, I Kahn… - Psychological …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
The functional anatomy of syntactic transformations, a major computational operation invoked
in sentence processing, was identified through a functional magnetic resonance imaging …

[HTML][HTML] Indices of effect existence and significance in the Bayesian framework

D Makowski, MS Ben-Shachar, SHA Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Methods and algorithms for correlation analysis in R

D Makowski, MS Ben-Shachar, I Patil… - Journal of Open Source …, 2020 - joss.theoj.org
Correlations tests are arguably one of the most commonly used statistical procedures, and
are used as a basis in many applications such as exploratory data analysis, structural …

[PDF][PDF] Extracting, computing and exploring the parameters of statistical models using R

D Lüdecke, MS Ben-Shachar, I Patil… - Journal of Open Source …, 2020 - joss.theoj.org
The recent growth of data science is partly fueled by the ever-growing amount of data and
the joint important developments in statistical modeling, with new and powerful models and …

Development of white matter and reading skills

…, RF Dougherty, M Ben-Shachar… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
White matter tissue properties are highly correlated with reading proficiency; we would like to
have a model that relates the dynamics of an individual’s white matter development to their …

Anatomical properties of the arcuate fasciculus predict phonological and reading skills in children

…, GK Deutsch, BA Wandell, M Ben-Shachar - Journal of cognitive …, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
For more than a century, neurologists have hypothesized that the arcuate fasciculus carries
signals that are essential for language function; however, the relevance of the pathway for …

Neural correlates of syntactic movement: converging evidence from two fMRI experiments

M Ben-Shachar, D Palti, Y Grodzinsky - Neuroimage, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper studies neural processes of sentence comprehension, focusing on a specific
syntactic operation—syntactic movement. We describe two fMRI experiments that manipulate …