Dividing a list of stimuli described by several statistics into subsets which are balanced according to these statistics is a common task in psychological research. For the purpose of preparing materials for an experiment which I am going to conduct &#... [Read more...]

Are statistics sexy? Visualising social networks certainly is! I wrote a little function, which makes producing beautiful plots depicting a mailbox with R an extremely easy task. I find visualisations of ‘social graphs’ particularly appealing. They look like flowers. I … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I have just came up with an idea how to test the wikipedia search traffic visualisation functions that I wrote about in my previous post. I decided to check if R is really gaining popularity that fast. ar [Read more...]

I have been playing with R to parse html. After reading about visualising “fantasy football” search traffic with RGoogleTrends at The Log Cabin blog I decided to write a few functions to do similar things with Wikipedia search statistics. This … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Several years ago Gerd Gigerenzer wrote: “Statistical rituals largely eliminate statistical thinking in the social sciences. Rituals are indispensable for identification with social groups, but they should be the subject rather than the procedure of science. Statistical rituals largely eliminate … Continue reading → [Read more...]