The companion web site for Serious Stats is now live:http://www.palgrave.com/psychology/baguley/The web site includes:- a free sample chapter (Chapter 15: Contrasts)- data sets- R scripts- 5 online supplements (for meta-analysis, multiple imputation, r...
The companion web site for Serious stats is now live: http://www.palgrave.com/psychology/Baguley/ It includes a sample chapter (Chapter 15: Contrasts), data sets, R scripts for all the examples and supplementary material. Filed under: news, R code, ser...
In our book, we discuss the important question of how to assign different parameterizations to categorical variables when fitting models (section 3.1.3). We show code in R for use in the lm() function, as follows:lm(y ~ x, contrasts=list(x,"contr.trea...
In section 10.4.4 of Serious stats (Baguley, 2012) I discuss the rank transformation and suggest that it often makes sense to rank transform data prior to application of conventional ‘parametric’ least squares procedures such as t tests or one-way ANOVA. There are several advantages to this approach over the usual approach (which involves learning and applying a new test such as Mann-Whitney U, [...]
Here is a list of the contents by chapter with quick notes on chapter content … 0. Preface (About the book; notes on software, mathematics and types of boxed sections) 1. Data, Samples and Statistics (A gentle review of measures … Continue reading →
