Steven Goodreau

> This is a good question @sgoodreau. Everytime I've ventured into this from a research perspective, I've wanted to be able to decompose the overall variation into within and between...

@chad-klumb : can you clarify some things here: - Is this for all three diagnostics (formation, dissolution, duration)? - Is it giving a single measure that includes both within- and...

> The duration table prepared in `main` (and in the derived branches I made starting with `main`) always includes imputation: Oh, of course; sorry. > The branches I made also...

This is great, thanks. I do find the names a bit unintuitive too, though. `SD(1-Sim Mean)` is the standard deviation across runs, I assume? And `SD(Statistic)` is the variation within...

Sorry I posted all of that and only then noticed the documentation. Once I read that it all makes sense. > This is great, thanks. I do find the names...

Martina and I are meeting on Monday to discuss her ideas around this.

Copied over from #737: I have lots of thoughts on this issue, and not the time at the moment to lay them all out [ed: OK by the time I...

Can you give a qucik example of what you mean here, i.e. what is an exampe of a call that is currently allowable but would not be with this change?

I don't feel like I have much sense of the whole background to give the best feedback. It sounds like "filter" exists as a term in the new statnet packages...

Streamlining and rationalizing the organization of the terms is definitely an important goal. Last I remember the discussion we were pondering different options, including moving nearly all of the terms...