Timothy Hayes

Associate Prof Quantitative Psychology at Florida International University. My days are numbers.

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

New missing data paper just dropped, in collaboration with my friends @ABarPhD and @DrStefanyC! =D

https://t.co/sEwoF4LWB9

Come for the data mining, stay for a discussion of some oft-overlooked nuances of different MAR missing data mechanisms. 1/

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

Happy Friday! I am clearly in a mood.

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

“Most youth own smartphones.”

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

Interesting and important topic!

[Ross Jacobucci @rossjacobucci]

New paper out in npj Digital Medicine:
We used high-resolution smartphone screenshots (7.5 million) to examine real-time links between screen time and suicide risk.
Findings suggest short-term increases in screen time are associated with elevated risk.
https://t.co/xzV6AzyWv3

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

@SMasonGarrison Congrats @SMasonGarrison!

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

@GolinoHudson Wait, are you telling me that teens interact with parents??

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

Had a blast teaching SEM at #APS2025! Great group of workshop attendees asking thoughtful, engaging questions. Hopefully folks learned something and had fun in the process!

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

8 mo home sick from daycare. No big deal but marathon kinda day. Circa hour 11 of the waking day we’re watching Ms Rachel and all of a sudden, I swear to God, she goes:

“Can you say … help? … HELP … heeeeeelp …”

And my brain starts to break, just a little. 😅😂🤣

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

I am Dunkin, Dunkin is me.

[Dunkin' @dunkindonuts]

if u need me, i’ll be drinking an iced coffee and overthinking something i said 5 years ago

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

I have neither beneficence nor respect for the persons who created the extremely long CITI Training Good Clinical Practice modules and mandatory 100% quiz question pass rate requirement. 😒

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

Matrix overview slides for my regression class are coming along.

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

@DougSteinley 😂😂😂

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

The negative binomial is just like the regular binomial, except everything is terrible and nothing matters and what’s even the point?

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

It is only our hubris that ever led us to name it “the negative binomial distribution” instead of “the Poisson distribution with wiggly gamma means.”

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

@quantitudepod It has! I feel a lot better now, and I think I might even be up for a drink. Perhaps some white ZINBfandel, just like we used to drink at gamma’s house….

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

All pneumonia is walking pneumonia when you own an extremely needy dog. 🐕

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

As always, treating the history of statistics with the respect and reverence that it deserves.

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

I can’t catch a break.

But I *can* catch literally every virus my daughter picks up at daycare.

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

One of the old FIU cybersecurity trainings talked about building a ‘strong shield’ against cybersecurity threats.

Now, when I report a phishing email or text, in my head, I’m like, “FUCK YOU, MY SHIELD IS STRONG!”

Not sure if that means that the training was effective or not.

[Timothy Hayes @letsnotbehayest]

No one:

Daycare: March 3rd is dress up like Dr Seuss day! 😃