<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>StatsCourse2025</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2025-11-26 08:44:56</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2025-11-20 08:37:18</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2025-11-12 10:14:14</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2025-11-05 10:22:57</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2025-10-29 08:43:57</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2025-10-22 12:02:19</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2025-10-15 07:56:14</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2025-10-09 08:28:21</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2025-08-19 10:07:41</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2025-03-28 12:06:54</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2025-03-28 12:06:24</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2025-03-28 12:05:57</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists</title><section><title>Michaelmas 2025</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para><emphasis role="strong">Level</emphasis> </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>This is a course planned with the needs in mind of a graduate student starting as a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences and related institutions. It will in addition be open to others e.g. research assistants, junior scientists, visitors. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para><emphasis role="strong">Style</emphasis> </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>The presentation will be as fairly formal lectures, each aiming </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>to outline a particular class of methods </para></listitem><listitem><para>to give examples of it being applied to realistic situations </para></listitem><listitem><para>to indicate how to implement it using software available at CBU </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para><emphasis role="strong">Location</emphasis> </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>All Lectures will take place on <emphasis role="strong">Thursdays</emphasis> <emphasis role="strong">from 11 am till 12 noon</emphasis> in the lecture theatre at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and are being given by <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/PeterWatson#">PeterWatson</ulink> who will welcome any feedback.  </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist><para><emphasis>Links to <emphasis role="strong">updated</emphasis> PowerPoint and PDF files of the lecture notes are being added</emphasis> <emphasis>during the progress of the course</emphasis> and may be downloaded to your desktop.  </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>A synopsis of the lectures is <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/Synopsis2008#">here</ulink>. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Lecture notes from last year's course are available <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2024#">here</ulink>. Zoom links featuring recordings from these talks in 2021 are <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2021/recordings#">here</ulink>. </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>Talk slides will be added below as we go through the course.  </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>You can complete a survey on a particular talk <ulink url="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZCXQT36">here.</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist><informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><colspec colname="col_0"/><colspec colname="col_1"/><tbody><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong">Date</emphasis> </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para><emphasis role="strong">Topic</emphasis> </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>09-Oct-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para> <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=EDA25.zip">Exploratory Data Analysis</ulink>  </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>16-Oct-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para> <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=REG25.zip">Simple and multiple linear regression</ulink>  </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>23-Oct-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para> <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=GLM25.zip">The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance</ulink>  </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>30-Oct-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>  <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=CAT25.zip">Categorical Data Analysis</ulink>  </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>06-Nov-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>  <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=BAN25.zip">ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies</ulink>   </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>13-Nov-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>  <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=RMA25.zip">Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA</ulink>  </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>20-Nov-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>  <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=PHO25.zip">Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions</ulink>  </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>27-Nov-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>  <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=PO25.zip">Power analysis</ulink> </para></entry></row><row rowsep="1"><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>04-Dec-25 </para></entry><entry colsep="1" rowsep="1"><para>  <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/StatsCourse2025/statswiki/StatsCourse2025?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=ALD25.zip">Analysis of Longitudinal data</ulink> </para></entry></row></tbody></tgroup></informaltable></section></section></article>