An Introduction to Bayesian Multilevel Models Using brms: A Case Study of Gender Effects on Vowel Variability in Standard Indonesian.

Purpose: Bayesian multilevel models are increasingly used to overcome the limitations of frequentist approaches in the analysis of complex structured data. This tutorial introduces Bayesian multilevel modeling for the specific analysis of speech data, using the brms package developed in R. Method: I...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 62; no. 5; pp. 1225 - 1243
Main Authors: Nalborczyk, Ladislas, Batailler, Cédric, Loevenbruck, Hélène, Vilain, Anne, Bürkner, Paul-Christian
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Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association May2019
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          Nalborczyk, Ladislas
          Batailler, Cédric
          Loevenbruck, Hélène
          Vilain, Anne
          Bürkner, Paul-Christian
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          Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France
          Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
          Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, LIP/PC2S, France
          Institut Universitaire de France, Paris
          Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GIPSA-lab, 38000, Grenoble, France
          Department of Psychology, University of Münster, Germany Paul-Christian Bürkner is now with the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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        Education
        Speech
        Immunomodulators
        Multilevel models
        Bayesian analysis
        Vowels
        Indonesian language
        Data analysis
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          Immunomodulators
          Multilevel models
          Bayesian analysis
          Vowels
          Indonesian language
          Data analysis
      ab: Purpose: Bayesian multilevel models are increasingly used to overcome the limitations of frequentist approaches in the analysis of complex structured data. This tutorial introduces Bayesian multilevel modeling for the specific analysis of speech data, using the brms package developed in R. Method: In this tutorial, we provide a practical introduction to Bayesian multilevel modeling by reanalyzing a phonetic data set containing formant (F1 and F2) values for 5 vowels of standard Indonesian (ISO 639-3:ind), as spoken by 8 speakers (4 females and 4 males), with several repetitions of each vowel. Results: We first give an introductory overview of the Bayesian framework and multilevel modeling. We then show how Bayesian multilevel models can be fitted using the probabilistic programming language Stan and the R package brms, which provides an intuitive formula syntax. Conclusions: Through this tutorial, we demonstrate some of the advantages of the Bayesian framework for statistical modeling and provide a detailed case study, with complete source code for full reproducibility of the analyses (https://osf.io/dpzcb/).
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