Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog)

This blog is a repository of cool things relating to statistical computing, simulation and stochastic modeling.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Statistics textbooks written by non-statisticians: Generally a Bad Idea

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A methodologist from psychology called Russell Warne writes on twitter: Paragraph in my upcoming introductory #statistics textbook that...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Two papers, with code: Statistical Methods for Linguistic Research (Parts 1 and 2)

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Here are two papers that may be useful for researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science: Shravan Vasishth and Bruno Nicen...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

A simple proof that the p-value distribution is uniform when the null hypothesis is true

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[Scroll to graphic below if math doesn't render for you] Thanks to Mark Andrews for correcting some crucial typos (I hope I got it rig...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Automating R exercises and exams using the exams package

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It's a pain to design statistics exercises each semester, and because students from previous share old exercises with the new incoming s...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2016

My MSc thesis: A meta-analysis of relative clause processing in Mandarin Chinese using bias modelling

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Here is my MSc thesis, which was submitted to the University of Sheffield in September 2015.  The pdf is here . Title : A Meta-analysis ...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Best statistics-related comment ever from a reviewer

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This is the most interesting comment I have ever received from CUNY conference reviewing. It nicely illustrates the state of our understandi...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Five thirty-eight provides a brand new definition of the p-value

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The Five-Thirty Eight blog provides a brand new definition of the p-value:  http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/psychology-is-starting-to-de...

Observed vs True Statistical Power, and the power inflation index

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People (including me) routinely estimate statistical power for future studies using a pilot study's data or a previously published study...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

Some reflections on teaching frequentist statistics at ESSLLI 2015

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I spent the last two weeks teaching frequentist and Bayesian statistics at the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (E...
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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Getting a statistics education: Review of the MSc in Statistics (Sheffield)

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[This post was written between Sept 2012 and Feb 2015. I will post an update in Sept. 2015] Last edit: June 27, 2015 Final edit: Nov ...
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Shravan Vasishth
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I'm professor of linguistics at the University of Potsdam in Germany.
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