StatsCourse2013

Michaelmas 2013

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
- All Lectures will take place in the CBU Lecture Theatre on Thursdays from 11 am till 12 noon and are being given by PeterWatson who will welcome any feedback.

Links to updated PowerPoint and PDF files of the lecture notes are being added during the progress of the course and may be downloaded to your desktop.

A synopsis of the lectures is here.
Lecture notes from last year's course are available here.

Date	Topic
10-Oct-13	Exploratory Data Analysis
17-Oct-13	Simple and multiple linear regression
31-Oct-13	The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
07-Nov-13	Categorical Data Analysis
14-Nov-13	ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
21-Nov-13	Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
28-Nov-13	Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions
05-Dec-13	Power analysis
12-Dec-13	Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Michaelmas 2013