Places on the Easter Prior Exposure (introductory) workshops filled up very quickly and we had to turn away quite a few people. In response we’ve managed to arrange another set of events on 16 and 17 June (again with an optional R bootcamp on June 15th). Booking is now open:http://... [Read more...]

Mark Andrews and I launched our Prior Exposure Bayesian Data Analysis workshop series last year and are pleased to announce that bookings for year the 2016 workshops 1 and 2 are now open. This is part of the ESRC Advanced Training Initiative.Further details including booking links and details of bursaries for UK ... [Read more...]

One fascinating thing about working in the area of psychological statistics is how hard it is to move people away from reliance on bad, inefficient or otherwise problematic methods. My own view - informed to some extent by the literature, by experience and by anecdote is that it isn't sufficient ... [Read more...]

This article from my other blog may be of interest to readers of this blog: http://seriousstats.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/using-multilevel-models-to-get-accurate-inferences-for-repeated-measures-anova-designs/ [Read more...]

In a break from my usual obsessions and interests here is a guest blog post by Ian Walker. I'm posting it because I think it is rather cool and hope it will be of interest to some of my regular readers. Ian is perhaps best known (in the blogosphere) f... [Read more...]

Neuroskeptic has just blogged on a new paper by Judd, Westfall and Kenny on Treating stimuli as a random factor in social psychology: A new and comprehensive solution to a pervasive but largely ignored problem. I can't access the original pap... [Read more...]

This blog and my other main blog (the companion blog for my book) are now syndicated via R-bloggers (posts tagged R only) and statsblogs.com. The latter is a relatively new blog aggregator but looks to have some interesting content. R-bloggers it quite... [Read more...]

The companion web site for Serious Stats is now live:http://www.palgrave.com/psychology/baguley/The web site includes:- a free sample chapter (Chapter 15: Contrasts)- data sets- R scripts- 5 online supplements (for meta-analysis, multiple imputation, r... [Read more...]

This is a quick follow up to my earlier post that discussed how to graph CIs for within-subjects (repeated measures) ANOVA designs. My forthcoming book Serious stats describes how to do this for between-subjects designs (a much simpler proble... [Read more...]

I finally found some time to take a closer look at p curves. I haven't had a chance to follow-up my simulations (and probably won't for a few weeks if not months), but I have had time to think through the ideas the p curve approach raises based on some ... [Read more...]

I have finally got around to posting the R code for my p curve simulation. Those familiar with R will realize how crude it is (I've been caught up with other urgent stuff and had no time to explore further).You are welcome to play with (and improve!) t... [Read more...]

Psych your mind has an interesting blog post on using p curves to detect dodgy stats in a a volume of published work (e.g., for a researcher or journal). The idea apparently comes from Uri Simonsohn (one of the authors of a recent paper on dodgy s... [Read more...]

I have just published R code for calculating CIs for differences between correlations on the Serious stats book blog. This covers independent correlations (taken from chapter 6 of the book) and dependent correlations (new R code written as a suppl... [Read more...]

This is a quick update to announce my new blog Serious Stats. This is a companion to my forthcoming book of the same name:Baguley, T. (2012, in press). Serious stats: A guide to advanced statistics for the behavioral sciences. Basingstoke: Palgrav... [Read more...]

Psychologists are gradually coming round to the view that it is a good idea to present interval estimates alongside point estimates of statistics. The most common statistic reported in psychology research is almost certainly the mean (strictly the arithmetic mean). Presenting an interval estimate for the mean of a single ... [Read more...]

Here are the slides from the Introduction to R session Danny Kaye and I ran at the BPS Mathematics, Statistics & Computing section CPS Workshop (13 December 2010, Nottingham Trent University). [Read more...]

I was recently asked to give a talk to our graduate school annual conference. I offered several titles and the one they picked was Using R in research. I'm not sure if this was a good idea or not. The graduate school covers PhD students across three ar... [Read more...]

A while ago I wrote a co-wrote chapter for an introductory psychology text book Essential Psychology: A Concise Introduction. This is a book edited and written by members of the department where I work. My contribution was the chapter on huma... [Read more...]

I needed to produce a few a interaction plots for my book in R and, while the interaction.plot() function is useful it has a couple of drawbacks. First, the default output isn't very pretty. Second, it works from the raw data, whereas I often need plot... [Read more...]

I recently wrote a review of Understanding psychology as a science: an introduction to scientific and statistical inference by Zoltan Dienes (2008). Dienes' book covers Neyman-Pearson null hypothesis significance testing, Bayesian inference and the lik... [Read more...]