PredPsych
Authors: | Atesh Koul |
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Updated: | Tue 23 July 2019 |
Source: | https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PredPsych ; https://github.com/ateshkoul/PredPsych |
Type: | R-package |
Languages: | English |
Keywords: | psychology, experiment, programming, neuroscience, English |
Open Access: | yes |
License: | GPL-3 |
Documentation: | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/PredPsych/PredPsych.pdf |
Publications: | Koul, A., Becchio, C. & Cavallo, (2018). A. PredPsych: A toolbox for predictive machine learning-based approach in experimental psychology research. Behavior Research Methods. 50, 1657–1672. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0987-2 |
Citation: | Koul, A. (2019). PredPsych: Predictive Approaches in Psychology. CRAN. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PredPsych |
Summary: | Recent years have seen an increased interest in machine learning-based predictive methods for analyzing quantitative behavioral data in experimental psychology. While these methods can achieve relatively greater sensitivity compared to conventional univariate techniques, they still lack an established and accessible implementation. The aim of current work was to build an open-source R toolbox – “PredPsych” – that could make these methods readily available to all psychologists. PredPsych is a user-friendly, R toolbox based on machine-learning predictive algorithms. We anticipate that PredPsych will be of use to researchers with limited programming experience not only in the field of psychology, but also in that of clinical neuroscience, enabling computational assessment of putative bio-behavioral markers for both prognosis and diagnosis. |