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The Hardest Science

Blogposts about psychology, reproducibility, replication etc.

The t-distritbution and its normal approximation

I just published a new interactive visualization in my series of basic statistical concepts and techniques. This time I am trying to show how the t-distribution and the normal distribution differs, and how they become very similar for larger sample …

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 plots for 2-way interactions

ggplot2, as I’ve already made clear, is one of my favourite packages for R. And since that original post about ggplot2 remains one of my most frequently visited, I thought I would proceed with starting a series of posts called “Make It Pretty”, all …

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

Bad Science blog on the Guardian webpages

Articles about Bad Science

Introducing JASP

A blog about JASP to replace SPSS

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

A blog about statistics and open science

The Bayesfactor blog

Blog about Bayesfactor and statistics
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