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, apart from the first, will take place in the West Wing Lecture Theatre on Thursdays from 11 am till 12 noon and are being given by IanNimmoSmith and PeterWatson who will welcome any feedback. Please note the first lecture takes place on a Friday from 11am till 12noon in the West Wing Lecture Theatre.

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

A synopsis of the lectures is here.
Lecture notes from last year's course are available here. A graduate student talk entitled "Using syntax in SPSS" given at the Clinical School on 13th March 2008 is here.

Date	Lecturer	Topic
10-Oct-08 NB Friday	Peter Watson	Exploratory Data Analysis
16-Oct-08	Ian Nimmo-Smith	The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power
23-Oct-08	Peter Watson	Simple and multiple linear regression
30-Oct-08	Ian Nimmo-Smith	The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
06-Nov-08	Ian Nimmo-Smith	Categorical Data Analysis
13-Nov-08	Peter Watson	ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
20-Nov-08	Peter Watson	Power analysis
27-Nov-08	Ian Nimmo-Smith	Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
04-Dec-08	Peter Watson	Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that
11-Dec-08	Ian Nimmo-Smith	Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

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