Marjolein Fokkema
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Marjolein Fokkema

Google Scholar ID: hZG2RdsAAAAJ
Associate Professor at Universiteit Leiden
statisticspsychometricsmachine learningdecision-tree methodsmultilevel models
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Hypothesis-free discovery from epidemiological data by automatic detection and local inference for tree-based nonlinearities and interactions
2025
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Academic Achievements
  • Published in journals such as Psychological Methods, Journal of Statistical Software, Information Fusion, and World Psychiatry. Her work has been covered in popular media. She also makes music videos about statistical methods under the name Mary-Jo and the Support Vector Machines.
Research Experience
  • Works on decision-tree methods, aiming to derive human-understandable scientific knowledge from black-box machine learning and AI methods. Develops open-source software packages for the R programming environment.
Background
  • Associate professor at the Psychological and Mathematical Institutes of Leiden University, with research interests in statistics, machine learning, and psychological assessment.
Miscellany
  • Interests include creating educational music videos (Mary-Jo and the Support Vector Machines) to communicate statistical concepts.