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Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Michaelmas 2009

  • 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