--- title: "Robust and Distributional Pupil Models" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Robust and Distributional Pupil Models} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", fig.width = 7, fig.height = 4.5) ``` ```{r} library(gp3bayes) ``` # Why separate location and residual scale? A Gaussian pupil model with constant residual standard deviation assumes the unexplained variability is similar across the full time course and conditions. gp3bayes 0.5 can instead declare the residual scale as constant, condition-dependent, time-dependent, or condition-by-time dependent. The Student-t option provides a robust observation distribution without automatically labelling individual observations as invalid outliers. ```{r} sim <- simulate_advanced_pupil_timecourse( n_participants = 10, trials_per_participant = 4, time_points = 31, heteroskedastic_strength = 0.8, outlier_fraction = 0.03, seed = 3001 ) plot_advanced_pupil_simulation(sim) ``` ```{r} gaussian_constant <- specify_pupil_distribution("gaussian", "constant") gaussian_time <- specify_pupil_distribution("gaussian", "condition_time") student_time <- specify_pupil_distribution("student", "condition_time") pupil_distribution_table(gaussian_constant) pupil_distribution_table(gaussian_time) pupil_distribution_table(student_time) ``` # Candidate specifications are explicit ```{r} spec_constant <- specify_advanced_pupil_timecourse_model( sim$data, family = "gaussian", residual_scale = "constant", autocorrelation = "none" ) spec_distributional <- specify_advanced_pupil_timecourse_model( sim$data, family = "gaussian", residual_scale = "condition_time", autocorrelation = "none" ) spec_robust <- specify_advanced_pupil_timecourse_model( sim$data, family = "student", residual_scale = "condition_time", autocorrelation = "none" ) ``` Student-t robustness and residual ARMA are deliberately not combined in the governed 0.5 interface. They should be treated as distinct modelling hypotheses and compared against the declared predictive target. # Posterior residual-scale trajectory ```{r eval=FALSE} fit_distributional <- fit_advanced_pupil_model_backend( spec_distributional, backend = "cmdstanr", cores = 2 ) sigma <- estimate_pupil_residual_scale(fit_distributional) pupil_residual_scale_table(sigma) plot_pupil_residual_scale(sigma) ```