Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

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 will take place in the CBU Lecture Theatre on Thursdays from 11 am till 12 noon and are being given by IanNimmoSmith and PeterWatson who will welcome any feedback.

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.
Requested details of new features in SPSS version 18.0 (the latest version as of 2009) including increased use of the bootstrap technique are available here.
Lecture notes from last year's course are available here.

Date	Lecturer	Topic
08-Oct-09	Ian Nimmo-Smith	The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power
15-Oct-09	Peter Watson	Exploratory Data Analysis
22-Oct-09	Peter Watson	Simple and multiple linear regression
29-Oct-09	Ian Nimmo-Smith	The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
05-Nov-09	Ian Nimmo-Smith	Categorical Data Analysis
12-Nov-09	Peter Watson	ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
19-Nov-09	Peter Watson	Power analysis
26-Nov-09	Ian Nimmo-Smith	Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
03-Dec-09	Peter Watson	Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that
10-Dec-09	Ian Nimmo-Smith	Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

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