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by 3abiton 957 days ago
I feel the technical barrier of adoption of bayesian methods is still high enough to deter potential users.
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It is much less challenging with Bambi[1] and brms[2].

  [1] https://bambinos.github.io/bambi/
  [2] https://paul-buerkner.github.io/brms/
If you put the links in plaintext they're not clickable.
I completely agree with you and this is why we are developing 4d-modeller:

https://4dmodeller.github.io/fdmr/

It's still in early stages but the concept is that these methods are mostly opaque even to highly technical users. So we start with shiny apps that help you build a model and that will work up to (not yet implemented, but we will do a sprint in a couple weeks) wrapper functions, which helps you get things going until you start wanting to get more and more complex. We just ran a Hackathon and participants with no R or Bayesian experience were able to make models.

It is still the Linux of statistical software. Rstanarm is getting quite good though for R users.