= 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

 
 * '''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''' Power``Point and PDF files of the lecture notes are being added'' ''during the progress of the course''.

  * A synopsis of the lectures is [:Synopsis2008:here].

  * Lecture notes from last year's course are available [:StatsCourseSlides2007:here]. A graduate student talk entitled "Using syntax in SPSS" given at the Clinical School on 13th March 2008 is [attachment:PW-clintalk.ppt here.]

||'''Date'''||'''Lecturer'''||'''Topic'''||
||10-Oct-08 '''NB Friday'''||Peter Watson||[attachment:1-eda2008-PW.ppt Exploratory Data Analysis] ||
||16-Oct-08||Ian Nimmo-Smith||[attachment:2-2008-anatomy-INS.ppt The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power]||
||23-Oct-08||Peter Watson||[attachment:3-2008-regress_PW.ppt Simple and multiple linear regression]||
||30-Oct-08||Ian Nimmo-Smith||The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance||
||06-Nov-08||Ian Nimmo-Smith||Categorical Data Analysis||
||13-Nov-08||Peter Watson||ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies||
||20-Nov-08||Peter Watson ||Power analysis||
||27-Nov-08||Ian Nimmo-Smith||Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA||
||04-Dec-08||Peter Watson||Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that||
||11-Dec-08||Ian Nimmo-Smith||Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions||