Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog)

I decided to teach a basic course on bayesian data analysis with a focus on psycholinguistics. Here is the course website (below). How coul...

In linear mixed models, we fit models like these (the Ware-Laird formulation--see Pinheiro and Bates 2000, for example): \begin{equatio...

Ever wondered what those correlations are in a linear mixed model? For example: The estimated correlation between $\hat{\beta}_1$ an...

As part of my long slog towards statistical understanding, I started making notes on the very specific topic of linear models. The details a...

" In Cauchy's day, when life was simple and matrices were small, determinants played a major role in analytic geometry and other p...

Recently seen quote on Gelman's blog: “No scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all c...

In the statistics course I'm doing, the solutions to assignments have R code, but the instructor doesn't want to see them in the mai...

Recently, on Andrew Gelman's blog there was a discussion about how to get yourself a statistics education (presumably without going thr...

I've been listing my reviewing service as an enumerated list in my cv till now, but recently I saw a better option: Brian Roark's cv...

I finally have a sabbatical; such a relief not to have to teach for a bit. What can one usefully do during a sabbatical? Here's a prelim...

"But an isolated finding, especially when embodied in a 2 X 2 design, at the .05 level or even the .01 level was frequently judged no...

Here's a revolutionary website: all data and code accompanying papers. http://read.psych.uni-potsdam.de/pmr2/ Imagine if it was mand...

You can read it online .

I foolishly tried to convert a matrix M to a vector using vector: vector(M) But this is done column wise, so that adjacent row items end...

Our book is finally coming out: You can buy it on Amazon.com , Amazon.de , or Springer.com .

Obscure LaTeX command: \textasciitilde{} % for tilde's in URLs as text. I'd been using $\sim$.

Not directly related to statistics but: Often one wants to have a public cv that one can put on the web, and a more restricted one that has ...

People in linguistics tend to treat statistical theory as something that can be outsourced--we don't really need to know anything about ...

This should be standard in Textmate, I don't know why one has to go through so many steps to get it working: http://gragusa.wordpress.co...

Got this from the web somewhere: Just create a script with the following content: #!/bin/sh LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 SVN=`which svn` echo Changi...