= Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists = === Michaelmas 2021 === * '''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 on zoom on '''Thursdays''' '''from 11 am till 12 noon''' and are being given by PeterWatson who will welcome any feedback. I will circulate a zoom link on the week of each talk. ''Links to '''updated''' Power``Point 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 [[Synopsis2008|here]]. * Lecture notes from last year's course are available [[StatsCourse2018|here]]. Talk slides and demo files will be added below as we go through the course. Recordings of the talks will be placed [[StatsCourse2021/recordings | here.]] ||'''Date''' ||'''Topic''' || ||07-Oct-21 || Exploratory Data Analysis || ||14-Oct-21 || Simple and multiple linear regression || ||21-Oct-21 || The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance || ||28-Oct-21 || Categorical Data Analysis || ||04-Nov-21 || ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies || ||11-Nov-21 || Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA || ||18-Nov-21 || Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions || ||25-Nov-21 || Power analysis || ||02-Dec-21 || Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that ||