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Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Michaelmas 2016

  • 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

    • All Lectures will take place in the CBU Lecture Theatre on Thursdays from 11 am till 12 noon and are being given by 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 and may be downloaded to your desktop.

  • A synopsis of the lectures is here.

  • Lecture notes from last year's course are available here.

  • Special 20% discounts from Routledge valid upto December 2017 on leading SPSS books are available by clicking on the 'members save 20%' link on the website here. Details of this discount in advert form are here.

Date

Topic

06-Oct-16

Exploratory Data Analysis

13-Oct-16

Simple and multiple linear regression

27-Oct-16

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

03-Nov-16

Categorical Data Analysis

10-Nov-16

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

17-Nov-16

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

24-Nov-16

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

01-Dec-16

Power analysis

08-Dec-16

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that