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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar

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Mattan S. Ben-shachar

Mattan worked across the easystats/modelbased, easystats/performance, and easystats/insight repositories, focusing on feature development, documentation, and reliability improvements. He enhanced user-facing documentation in R and R Markdown to clarify statistical predictions and intervals, refined mathematical notation for manuscript materials, and standardized outputs for group variation analysis. In easystats/performance, he refactored code to improve API clarity and deprecated legacy functions, while also delivering targeted bug fixes such as correcting p-value extraction from Levene’s test results. His work combined R programming, statistical modeling, and unit testing, resulting in more maintainable codebases and improved accuracy for downstream analytics and reporting.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

71%Features

Repository Contributions

14Total
Bugs
2
Commits
14
Features
5
Lines of code
560
Activity Months5

Work History

February 2026

1 Commits

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 — easystats/performance: Delivered a critical bug fix to ensure accurate extraction of p-values from Levene's test results. Implemented corrected parsing logic and added a regression test to validate correctness, reducing the risk of incorrect statistics being consumed by downstream analytics. This work improves reliability of statistical reporting and supports future feature work in robust test result handling.

November 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 monthly summary for easystats/insight focusing on feature delivery and rollback related to get_modelmatrix.fixest, with emphasis on business value and stability.

May 2025

9 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 (2025-05) monthly summary for easystats/performance: Delivered targeted feature enhancements to improve check_group_variation usage and ensure consistent downstream analytics. Key changes include enhanced logic for variable types (nested vs non-nested), standardized outputs with title-cased columns (Variable, Group, Variation, Design), clarified input argument naming, and improved heterogeneity bias handling in summaries. Documentation and tests were updated to reflect the new design, and formatting was standardized (styler). The check_heterogeneity_bias function was deprecated by updating its title/docs to steer users toward removal. No major bugs fixed this month; the focus was on reliability, maintainability, and a clearer API surface to support dashboards and analytics pipelines. These changes reduce user confusion, improve data quality, and position the project for smoother migrations and future enhancements.

February 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025: Delivered a key feature in easystats/modelbased by clarifying predictions on a regular grid and refining the notation for estimates and standard errors in Paper.Rmd. No critical bugs fixed this month. This work improves interpretability of predictions, consistency of statistical notation, and readiness of manuscript materials for review/publication, supporting clear communication of methods and results.

January 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 (2025-01) monthly summary for easystats/modelbased. Focused on delivering user-facing documentation improvements for ModelBased Predictions and Marginal Effects, with clear explanations of prediction types, intervals, and backend components; reduced ambiguity for end users; prepared groundwork for broader adoption.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.2%
Maintainability90.0%
Architecture87.2%
Performance83.6%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

RR Markdown

Technical Skills

Code RefactoringData AnalysisDocumentationRR MarkdownR ProgrammingR package developmentR programmingSoftware RefactoringStatistical ModelingTechnical WritingTestingdata analysisstatistical analysisstatistical modeling

Repositories Contributed To

3 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

easystats/performance

May 2025 Feb 2026
2 Months active

Languages Used

R

Technical Skills

Code RefactoringData AnalysisDocumentationR ProgrammingR package developmentR programming

easystats/modelbased

Jan 2025 Feb 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

R MarkdownR

Technical Skills

DocumentationRTechnical WritingR Markdown

easystats/insight

Nov 2025 Nov 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

R

Technical Skills

R programmingdata analysisstatistical modeling