{"id":5646,"date":"2014-01-13T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2014-01-12T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T22:42:40","slug":"iap-mini-course-on-statistics-120-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/01\/13\/iap-mini-course-on-statistics-120-124\/","title":{"rendered":"IAP Mini-Course on Statistics, 1\/20-1\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-year grad student <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/brohan\/www\/bio.html\">Anthony Brohan<\/a> will be teaching a five-day mini-course on statistical methods next week.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We will meet from 10-1PM at 56-167 from the 20th to the 24th. Below is a rough outline of the topics I plan on covering each day. The first half of every lecture I will cover some statistical concepts, and on the second half of the lecture will be focusing on hands-on R skills.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1<br clear='none'\/>\nDistribution tests; Tests for the mean; t-tests (paired and unpaired); Are the means the same?; Are the variances the same?; Linear regression; Interpreting p-values<\/p>\n<p>Day 2<br clear='none'\/>\nNon-parametric tests; Chi-square; Fischer&#8217;s exact test; Transformation and regression<\/p>\n<p>Day 3<br clear='none'\/>\nHandling Discrimination and Reaction time data; ANOVA<\/p>\n<p>Day 4<br clear='none'\/>\nGeneralized Linear Models (building, interpreting and evaluating models)<\/p>\n<p>Day 5<br clear='none'\/>Linear mixed effects models<\/p>\n<p>Along the way R skills will emphasize on data exploration, scripting and plotting, as well as implementing these tests. We&#8217;ll be using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/~baayen\/publications\/baayenCUPstats.pdf\">Baayen&#8217;s textbook<\/a> as well as some materials from Jaeger&#8217;s lab about the use of mixed-effects models.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-year grad student Anthony Brohan will be teaching a five-day mini-course on statistical methods next week. We will meet from 10-1PM at 56-167 from the 20th to the 24th. Below is a rough outline of the topics I plan on covering each day. The first half of every lecture I will cover some statistical concepts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}