The JASP Blog

We are proud to announce that JASP 0.98 has been released and is now available on our download page. The major innovation in JASP 0.98 is the (optional!) inclusion of fully integrated AI support. This support needs to be activated through the JASP Preferences setting, where the user is asked to provide an API key. Once the user has activated…

We are proud to present a breakthrough development: JASP now comes with fully integrated AI support – yes, the AI can control the JASP GUI, select new analyses, interpret and annotate results, etc. Get the heads-up and learn about Alfred, Socrates, and Evelyn on the JASP-Services blog. The AI version will come out this week, but the flyer shown in…

We are happy to announce that Mátyás Bukva has been awarded the 2025 JASP Contributor Award. As noted on our awards page, Mátyás has contributed important new functionality to JASP. Specifically, Mátyás added the Plot Builder, which is now prominently featured under the Descriptives tab in the JASP ribbon. The Plot Builder is based on the tidyplots package by Jan…

To All Measurement Invariance and Item Functioning Detectives, We have known for a while that the common approach to assess Measurement Invariance (MI) disregards quite some information, because continuous variables must often be split into discrete groups. A few years ago, Daniel Bauer and team [https://dbauer.web.unc.edu/] came to the rescue and developed moderated (non)-linear factor analysis (MNLFA), a method that…

We are proud to announce that JASP 0.96 has been released and is now available on our download page. A major innovation in JASP 0.96 is the creation of an online module library, courtesy of our collaboration with the eScience center. Similar to CRAN for R, this online library will make it easier for external contributors to add new modules…

On 16-17 February 2026 the Netherlands eScience Center hosted a two-day JASP hackathon in Amsterdam. The purpose of the hackathon was to guide participants into developing their very own JASP module, with the JASP programming team present to assist. We are happy to report that the event was a resounding success, surpassing our already positive expectations. With 26 participants (for…

We are happy to announce that the JASP team will offer a week of workshops in Amsterdam this summer.  In this blogpost we’ll highlight the last workshop: “Theory and Practice of Bayesian Hypothesis Testing with JASP“. This two-day workshop takes place on Thursday and Friday (August 27th and 28th) 2026, and can also be attended online. The main purpose of…

We are happy to announce that the JASP team will offer a week of workshops in Amsterdam this summer.  In this blogpost we’ll highlight the third of four workshops: “A Crash Course in Machine Learning with JASP“. This one-day workshop takes place on Wednesday August 26th 2026, and can also be attended online. The main purpose of this workshop is…

We are happy to announce that the JASP team will offer a week of workshops in Amsterdam this summer.  In this blogpost we’ll highlight the second of four workshops: “State-of-the-Art Meta-Analysis using JASP“. This one-day workshop takes place on Tuesday August 25th 2026, and can also be attended online. The main purpose of this workshop is to equip participants with…

We are happy to announce that the JASP team will offer a week of workshops in Amsterdam this summer.  In this blogpost we’ll highlight the first of four workshops: “Discovering Statistics Using JASP“. This one-day workshop takes place on Monday August 24th 2026, and it is based on the new textbook by Andy Field, Johnny van Doorn, and EJ Wagenmakers.…