Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists
Michaelmas 2008
Level
- This is a course planned with the needs in mind of a graduate student starting as a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences and related institutions. It will in addition be open to others e.g. research assistants, junior scientists, visitors.
Style
- The presentation will be as fairly formal lectures, each aiming
- to outline a particular class of methods
- to give examples of it being applied to realistic situations
- to indicate how to implement it using software available at CBU
- The presentation will be as fairly formal lectures, each aiming
Location
Lectures, apart from the first, will take place in the West Wing Lecture Theatre on Thursdays from 11 am till 12 noon and are being given by IanNimmoSmith and PeterWatson who will welcome any feedback. Please note the first lecture takes place on a Friday from 11am till 12noon in the West Wing Lecture Theatre.
Links to updated PowerPoint and PDF files of the lecture notes are being added during the progress of the course.
A synopsis of the lectures is here.
Lecture notes from last year's course are available here. A graduate student talk entitled "Using syntax in SPSS" given at the Clinical School on 13th March 2008 is here.
Date |
Lecturer |
Topic |
10-Oct-08 NB Friday |
Peter Watson |
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16-Oct-08 |
Ian Nimmo-Smith |
The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power |
23-Oct-08 |
Peter Watson |
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30-Oct-08 |
Ian Nimmo-Smith |
The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance |
06-Nov-08 |
Ian Nimmo-Smith |
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13-Nov-08 |
Peter Watson |
ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies |
20-Nov-08 |
Peter Watson |
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27-Nov-08 |
Ian Nimmo-Smith |
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04-Dec-08 |
Peter Watson |
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11-Dec-08 |
Ian Nimmo-Smith |
Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions |