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

From: [...]

Recommended Fonts for Presentations

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Guidelines for Writing Summaries

Read the passage carefully. Determine its structure. Identify the author’s purpose in writing. Make a note in the margin when you get confused, or when you think something is important.

Reread. This time divide the passage into sections or stages of thought. The author’s use of paragraphing will often be a useful guide. Label, on the passage [...]

Open Educational Resources

A new Web site, Open Educational Resources Center for California, brings together information on free and open textbooks and course materials in one location. Though the Web site was designed for California’s community-college faculty members, it could be a useful resource for anyone trying to find learning materials in the public domain.

The site links to more [...]

Books That Provoke Our Thanks

APA Style Blog: Books That Provoke Our Thanks

Writers in psychology and the social and behavioral sciences reach for the APA Publication Manual first when they have style and usage questions. But inevitably, some topics are outside its scope, while others are covered in less detail than one might like.

At APA, there are a few resource books [...]

Writing and Style Guides

The Internet Public Library has lots of really useful links. I find this set particularly useful when writing.

Internet Public Library:  Style & [...]

Key Sentences

Research as a Second Language

Tara Gray’s Publish and Flourish performs one of its essential ideas in its table of contents. If we restate the subtitle as a question, the section headings, taken together, constitute the answer, and the chapter titles constitute its elaboration.

Q: How does one become a prolific scholar?

A: You become a prolific scholar by [...]

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 [...]

Digital Research Tools Wiki

digitalresearchtools

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you’re looking for. We provide a [...]

Academic Earth – Video lectures

Academic Earth – Video lectures from the world’s top scholars
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education. AcademicEarth is a new website that lets you watch university lectures online. The site provides you with thousands of video lectures from world’s top educators that lecture [...]

Cory Doctorow's Writer's Guidelines

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn’t help my writing. This advice was wrong creatively, professionally, artistically, and personally, but I know where the writer who doled [...]

Self Made Scholar

SelfMadeScholar.com
The goal of SelfMadeScholar.com is to connect people to the resources they need to learn. Anyone who is interested in learning (be it academic learning or technical learning) is welcome to join our community. Business professionals, students, seniors, stay-at-home-moms, homeschoolers, unschoolers, and autodidacts of all kinds [...]

80 Online Resources for Book Lovers

Zigmas Bigelis’ Blog
An interesting list of [...]

101+ Web Resources for Students

101+ Web Resources for Students | studenthacks.org
Here is a collection of over 150 web resources for students that you might [...]

How to write a thesis

From the tutors of the Writing Center at Harvard University:

Developing [...]

How to Write Abstracts

How to Write Abstracts | studenthacks.org
The last step in any research proposal is to write a comprehensive summary (or abstract) about what you’re about to propose.

This might sound easy, but I find that this is sometimes the most difficult part.

How do you condense all your research into a brief paragraph?

It can be mind-boggling — [...]

100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better

100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better | OEDb
If you think that iPods are used just for listening to music, you obviously haven’t been keeping up with the latest technology. The Apple-developed music player now features all kinds of accessories to help you study better, and now other companies are [...]

Where to Find a Librarian 24/7

Where to Find a Librarian 24/7 | studenthacks.org
If you ever have any research trouble, you should seriously consider contacting a librarian.

They can cut your research time in half – and help you find exactly what you need.

And you never need to visit a library to talk [...]