Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

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
- Lectures will take place in the West Wing Lecture Theatre on Thursdays from 12 am till 1 p.m. and are being given by Ian Nimmo-Smith and Peter Watson who will welcome any feedback.

(Last updated 2 October 2001)

Links to PowerPoint and PDF files of the lecture notes are being added during the progress of the course.

Date	Lecturer	Topic
October 11	Peter Watson	Exploratory Data Analysis
October 18	Ian Nimmo-Smith	The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power
October 25	Peter Watson	Simple and multiple linear regression
November 1	Ian Nimmo-Smith	The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
November 8	NO MEETING	NO MEETING
November 15	Peter Watson	Anova of balanced multi-factorial designs applied to between subjects designs, and single subject studies
November 22	Ian Nimmo-Smith	Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
November 29	Peter Watson	Power analysis
December 6	Ian Nimmo-Smith	Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling Interactions
December 13	Peter Watson	Latent variable models (factor analysis and all that)

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