Future enhancements

[jwdink]

To avoid cluttering up issues forum, will put brainstorming for all future enhancements here.

[jwdink]

Better tools for analyzing "first looks" (e.g., first saccade to AOI, starting from fixation).

[brockf]

Add Bayesian time series analysis using brms() and growth curves.

[jwdink]

Doesn't this break our workflow? We don't have any functions that internally use lmer, would we be adding a function with brms? Or did you just mean have a vignette with brms? @brockf

[brockf]

True: Let's just add a vignette with BRMS using time_sequence data. The only brms-specific benefit is that we can get interpretable times of divergence (based on some threshold of distribution overlap), but this can be discussed in a vignette.

[samhforbes]

I actually just came on here to suggest exactly this (doing this at the moment). Divergence estimates using Bayesian analysis would give a more accessible output, and using brms would mean there is no need to change the syntax from your previous vignettes.

[jwdink]

@brockf , @sforbes88 Is the idea here to fit a bayesian growth-curve then use the posterior to estimate divergence?

[samhforbes]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, because it's fairly easy to get prediction intervals from brms. Either way, great package guys.