Statistics Resources for Social and Behavioural Sciences: SPSS, R, Maths, and Writing
I have a blog on psychology and statistics that I thought might interest readers on this site. The following provides an overview of research methods related content on the blog with links to individual articles.
GENERAL STATISTICS
- Getting Started: General advice on statistics for a thesis
- Preliminaries: Normality and transformations
- Scales: Scale construction; Scale construction for psychological tests; Computing Ability Scales; Checking for accuracy; Multiple choice tests; Scoring a multiple choice test in SPSS
- Mediation: Getting Started; Issues with causal inference
- Correlations: two independent correlations; Formatting a correlation matrix; Adjusting for reliability; tetrachoric corelations; Confidence intervals; Significance tests
- Repeated Measures: longitudinal data; data structuring for repeated measures experiments;
- Dyadic Data: Data management; Basic analyses
- Basic Analyses: Basic procedure for observational study; Introduction to Modelling
- ANOVA: Follow up tests
- Multiple Regression: Variable importance
- Factor Analysis: Item parcelling; factor analysis and scale construction;Factor analysis in R
- Data Mining: Data mining and R
- SEM: SEM in R
- Assorted: Bootstrapping in R; Difference Scores; Discriminant function analysis; Problems with cluster analysis; Logistic Regression; Ordinal variables; Generalised estimating equations; Model building
- Results: Tables R to Word; Grammar of tables; data sharing and literate programming; Table of item descriptives
OTHER
R: Learning R; Blogs on R; R in Australia; StatET; Tips for StatET Upgrade procedure; R and Excel; Efficient variable selection in R
SPSS: Efficient variable selection
Excel: Recovering Corrupt Files
Design: Carryover effects; Causal Inference; Depth interviews; Designing online experiments
Inquisit: Sample Script of Reaction Time Task
Maths: Video courses; Symbol pronounciation;
Teaching: Teaching with R; Writing practice questions; My orientation to statistics consulting; My teaching resources
Blogging: Setting up blog on Blogger; How to subscribe; Introduction to Twitter; Blogs that I follow; Formatting code in a blog post; Customising Blogger template
Writing: Literature Reviews; Quality Codes; Learning to write research; Pen and paper; Writing tips for psychology results
Endnote: Importing from Google Scholar; Exporting from Google Scholar