Conceptual and Statistical Knowledge

 

Chrome Book Data Science

Chromebook Data Science (CBDS) is a free, massive open online educational program offered through Leanpub to help anyone who can read, write, and use a computer to move into data science, the number one rated job.

False Positive Psychology

A lecture on when analysis goes wrong A look at false-positive psychology

Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory

You’re a social scientist with a hunch: The U.S. economy is affected by whether Republicans or Democrats are in office. Try to show that a connection exists, using real data going back to 1948. For your results to be publishable in an academic …

Stat 545

This site is about everything that comes up during data analysis except for statistical modelling and inference. This might strike you as strange, given R’s statistical roots. First, let me assure you we believe that modelling and inference are …

SWIRL

Swirl teaches you R programming and data science interactively, at your own pace, and right in the R console!

The Hardest Science

Blogposts about psychology, reproducibility, replication etc.

Tutorial/R code for creating funnel/forest plots

Meta-analyses are often accompanied by two popular forms of data visualization: forest plots and funnel plots. In this post, I’ll show how quick-and-dirty forest and funnel plots can be created with the metafor package. After, I’ll show how we can …

Tutorial/R code for creating scree/parallel analysis plots

With this post, I’m going to be showing how you can use the psych package in conjunction with ggplot2 in order to create a prettier scree plot with parallel analysis–a very useful visualization when conducting exploratory factor analysis.

Understanding Bayes: Visualization of the Bayes Factor

An abstract about Understanding Bayes and visualising Bayes Factor

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

A blog about statistics and open science
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