Release of guide for bayesvl version 1.0
Quang-Loc NguyenSP Jain School of Global Management (Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-5990
October 18, 2022
This special post is to announce that the guide of the bayesvl R package version 1.0 has been officially released since October 3, 2022 [1]. The guide is published as a book chapter in the book titled: “The mindsponge and BMF analytics for innovative thinking in social sciences and humanities” [2]. The bayesvl 1.0 is available on GitHub, free and installable from the site: https://github.com/sshpa/bayesvl.
Figure 1: bayesvl 1.0 on GitHub.
The bayesvl R package was officially approved by The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) on May 24, 2019, with version 0.8.5 [3,4]. After its release, several protocols have been published to provide step-by-step guidance for performing Bayesian inference with the package [5-7]. Notably, the package and its user manual are translated and circulated on multiple platforms in different languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese [8-11].
Since its first release, the bayesvl package and its protocol have contributed to the publication of at least 37 peer-reviewed research articles and books [12-49], of which 14 studies employed the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework analytics [36-49]. Many of them were published in prestigious journals in their field, such as Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio), Pacific Conservation Biology (CSIRO – Australian Academy of Sciences), Learned Publishing (ALPSP), Heliyon (Cell Press), Research Evaluation (Oxford University Press), to name just a few.
Figure 2: bayesvl R package downloads from the CRAN servers over time
Through the update to version 1.0, the bayesvl is expected to contribute more to scientific research activities since its usefulness is significantly leveraged. Specifically, the WAIC and PSIS-LOO-CV computations for model comparison and selection, the Posterior Predictive Check, and the visualization function for test quantities are among the major upgrades in the new version.
References
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[43] Vuong QH, Le TT, La VP, Nguyen MH. (2022). The psychological mechanism of internet information processing for post-treatment evaluation. Heliyon, 8(5), e09351.
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