Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists
Michaelmas 2018
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
All Lectures will take place in either the CBU Lecture Theatre or West Wing Seminar Room 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.
Date |
Topic & Venue |
04 Oct 18 |
Exploratory Data Analysis (West Wing Seminar Room) |
11 Oct 18 |
Simple and multiple linear regression (Lecture Theatre) |
25 Oct 18 |
The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Lecture Theatre) |
01 Nov 18 |
Categorical Data Analysis (West Wing Seminar Room) |
08 Nov 18 |
ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Lecture Theatre) |
15 Nov 18 |
Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (West Wing Seminar Room) |
22 Nov 18 |
Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Lecture Theatre) |
29 Nov 18 |
Power analysis (West Wing Seminar Room) |
06 Dec 18 |
Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (West Wing Seminar Room) |