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% effects are shrunken toward zero, while stable effects survive the
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% penalty. This "Partial Pooling" ensures that Bayes factors are
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% appropriately conservative without the catastrophic loss of power
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% associated with classical post-hoc adjustments [8, 9].
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% associated with classical post-hoc adjustments [8, 9]. See later section
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% on STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND ERROR CONTROL.
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% PREDICTIVE OPTIMIZATION:
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% The ridge tuning constant (hyperparameter) is selected empirically by
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% credibility intervals, and prior standard deviations are reported
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% directly on the original coefficient scale for ease of interpretation.
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% STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND ERROR CONTROL:
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% Inference is provided via three complementary metrics: Credibility
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% Intervals (CIs), Bayes Factors (BFs), and Stability Selection (SS)
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% probabilities. Conditioned on a bootstrap-optimized ridge penalty, these
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% statistics exhibit superior control over Type M (magnitude) and Type S
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% (sign) errors relative to unpenalized estimators. The inherent shrinkage
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% provides some protection against Family-Wise Error Rate (FWER) inflation
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% for CIs and BFs, maintaining conservative global error control in
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% multiple testing contexts without explicit post-hoc adjustments.
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% Conversely, SS probabilities prioritize statistical power in sparse or
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% low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) settings; while SS maintains marginal
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% error control at alpha, it lacks the intrinsic FWER protection afforded
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% by shrinkage when interpreting multiple simultaneous inferences.
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% See also: `bootstrp`, `boot`, `bootlm`, `bootbayes` and `bootwild`.
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% Bibliography:

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