Discovering Statistics
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Statistics blog by Andy Field. Andy is Professor of Child Psychopathology at the University of Sussex, UK. Historically he researches emotion development in children, but increasingly he sits alone in a cave full of glow-worms listening to heavy metal and 70’s rock and looking at numbers.
Discovering Statistics
3y ago
Thanks to my brother I became aware of this article about bat cunnilingus today. My brother, knowing how entertained I had been by a bat felating itself at Disney on my honeymoon, decided that this would be just the sort of article that I’d like. Knowing the kind of examples I put in my textbooks ..read more
Discovering Statistics
3y ago
I decided to start a series of blogs on questions that I get asked a lot. When I say a series I’m probably raising expectation unfairly: anyone who follows this blog will realise that I’m completely crap at writing blogs. Life gets busy. Sometimes I need to sleep. But only sometimes. Anyway, I do get ..read more
Discovering Statistics
4y ago
The fifth edition of Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics has just landed (or so I am told). For those that use the book I thought it might be helpful to run through what’s changed. General changes It might sound odd if you’ve never done a new edition of a textbook, but it can be ..read more
Discovering Statistics
4y ago
Aims and Objectives Have a working knowledge of the ways in which similarity between cases can be quantified (e.g. single linkage, complete linkage and average linkage). Be able to produce and interpret dendrograms produced by SPSS. Know that different methods of clustering will produce different cluster structures. What is Cluster Analysis? We have already seen ..read more
Discovering Statistics
4y ago
StinkFiske[1] Many of you will have seen former APS president Professor Susan Fiske’s recently leaked opinion piece in the APS observer and the outcry it has caused. I’m late in on this, but in my defence I have a 6 week old child to help keep alive and I’m on shared parental leave, so I’m ..read more
Discovering Statistics
4y ago
Yesterday was the official launch of my new textbook An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma. Although a few ‘print to order’ copies are floating about, the ‘proper’ hi-res print copies won’t be available for a few more weeks, but I thought it was a good opportunity to blog something about the book and perhaps ..read more
Discovering Statistics
4y ago
There’s been a recent spat between the heavy metal bands Sepultura and Soulfly. For those unaware of the history, 50% of Sepulture used to be the Cavalera brothers (Max and Igor) until Max (the frontman and guitarist) left the band in 1996 and formed Soulfly. The full story is here. There’s a lot of bad ..read more
Discovering Statistics
4y ago
Amazingly I haven’t written a blog since September last year, it’s almost as though I have better things to do (or have no ideas about topics … or have nothing interesting to say). It’s more the lack of ideas/interesting things to say, oh, and other people are so much better at statistics blogging than I ..read more
Discovering Statistics
4y ago
I’m a bit late on this particular bandwagon, but it’s a busy time what with the start of term and finishing writing textbook and all that. The textbook is also my excuse for having not written a blog for a year, well, that and the fact I rarely have anything interesting to say. Anyway, those ..read more
Discovering Statistics
4y ago
I’m writing a new textbook on introductory statistics, and I decided to include an example based on Paul Zak‘s intriguing work on the role of the hormone oxytocin in trust between strangers. In particular, I started looking at his 2005 paper in Nature. Yes, Nature, one of the top science journals. A journal with an ..read more