Free Video Courses on R, Structural Equation Modelling, Causal Inference, and Regression from Uni Jena

 

The Department of Methodology and Evaluation Research at Universität Jena has made available a set of free online video courses on data analysis. They cover topics that are particularly relevant to psychology and social science researchers, including SEM, causal inference, regression, R, and psychometrics. Some courses are in German, but many are in English, and the [...]

Statistics Resources for Social and Behavioural Sciences: SPSS, R, Maths, and Writing

Here is a newly discovered blog with lots of useful articles about practical statistics.

GENERAL STATISTICS

Getting Started: General advice on statistics for a thesis
Preliminaries: Normality and transformations
Scales: Scale construction; Scale construction for psychological tests; Computing Ability Scales; Checking for accuracy; Multiple choice tests; Scoring a multiple choice test in SPSS
Mediation: Getting Started; Issues with causal inference
Correlations: two [...]

R Tutorial Series

Below is a categorized list of the articles currently offered in the R Tutorial Series.

Introduction to R

Part 1
Part 2

Descriptive Statistics

Summary and Descriptive Statistics

Data Visualization

Scatterplots

Correlation

Zero-Order Correlations

Regression

Simple Linear Regression
Multiple Linear Regression
Regression Assumptions
Regression with Interaction Variables
Regression with Categorical Variables
Polynomial Regression

HLM

Hierarchical Linear Modeling

ANOVA

One-Way ANOVA

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Chart Suggestions

How to Find the Right Chart Type for your Numeric Data

If you are finding it hard to pick the right chart type for your type of data, this easy flow chart (available as PDF and JPG) courtesy Andrew Abela should help you make the decision quickly. Start from the center and take the route that best [...]

Online electronic journals index

eprintweb – Home
eprintweb.org is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology, and consists of e-print records which can be browsed and searched.

The contents of eprintweb.org are provided by arXiv, which is operated and funded by Cornell University Library, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and is also partially [...]

Introduction to Probability

Introduction to Probability

This introductory probability book, published by the American Mathematical Society, is available from AMS bookshop. It has, since publication, also been available for download here in pdf [...]

Introduction to Statistical Thought

Introduction to Statistical Thought
This eBook is intended as an upper level undergraduate or introductory graduate textbook in statistical thinking with a likelihood emphasis for students with a good knowledge of calculus and the ability to think abstractly. By “statistical thinking” is meant a focus on ideas that statisticians care about as opposed to technical [...]

SPSS Tutorials

Lots of really good tutorials and references for learning SPSS

Free General and Specialized Online [...]

Introduction to Statistical Thought

Here is a good free statistics textbook available in PDF format.

Introduction to Statistical Thought

The book is intended as an upper level undergraduate or introductory graduate textbook in statistical thinking with a likelihood emphasis for students with a good knowledge of calculus and the ability to think abstractly. By “statistical thinking” is meant a focus on [...]

Introduction to Probability

Textbook Revolution: Introduction to Probability
A PDF of an in-print probability textbook by authors from Dartmouth and Swarthmore. The website also has links to many other useful probability resources online, including a complete course on the subject. The book has everything you’d expect a print textbook to have, including a professional layout, plenty of illustrations, [...]

Engineering Statistics Handbook

NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
The NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods 1, is a Web-based book whose goal is to help scientists and engineers incorporate statistical methods into their work as efficiently as possible. Ideally it will serve as a reference that will help scientists and engineers design their own experiments and carry out the [...]

Statistical Thinking for Managerial Decisions

Dr. Arsham’s Statistics Site

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Textbook Revolution: Statistical Thinking for Managerial Decisions
Here’s an entire statistics book on one long page of simple HTML text, with hyperlinks taking you up and down the page. If you print it out, you’ll get a book 172 pages long. The setup makes it easy to search the site using CTRL-F [...]

Free textbook: Statistical Analysis with the General Linear Model

Textbook Revolution: Statistical Analysis with the General Linear Model

Statistical Analysis with the General Linear Model is an introductory textbook describing statistical analysis with ANOVA, regression, and analysis of covariance. It is intended for social sciences students with a minimum of mathematical background, who have had one previous statistics class (covering descriptive statistics and basic hypothesis [...]

The R Project for Statistical Computing

Textbook Revolution: The R Project for Statistical Computing

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. If you have more than a passing interest in statistics and data presentation, R provides you with a great set of tools to work [...]

Benford’s Law

Benford’s Law

Benford’s law predicts a decreasing frequency of first digits, from 1 through 9. Every entry in data sets developed by Benford for numbers appearing on the front pages of newspapers, by Mark Nigrini of 3,141 county populations in the 1990 U.S. Census and by Eduardo Ley of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1990-93 [...]

SPSS Web books

SPSS Web Books: Regression with SPSS

The aim of these materials is to help you increase your skills in using regression analysis with SPSS. This web book does not teach regression, per se, but focuses on how to perform regression analyses using SPSS. It is assumed that you have had at least a one quarter/semester [...]