This site hosts the Edinburgh Statistics Journal club, and a collection of helpful advice for getting things done in R. This site is linked to the Edinburgh Psychology Statistics Seminar Group and to the MSc Statistics Course: Univariate Statistics and Methodology using R, as well as The Differential Group Journal Club at Edinburgh. We have a facebook group.
Journal Club
When: Every second Thursday (2-3pm)
Where: S38, 7 George Square (unless otherwise stated)
Talks
4 April: Using Instrumental_variables in Statistical Models.
Speaker: Dr. Mark Schaffer, Economics Department, School of Management, Heriot-Watt University.
21 March: An Introduction to Meta-Analysis.
Speaker: Dr. Geoff Der, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.
21 Feb: Practical Structural_equation_modelling
Presenters: Tom Booth, Aja, Tim, Rene
- datafile (csv)
7 Feb: An introduction to structural equation modelling (SEM)
Lead: Tom Booth
A general introduction for those who are not familiar, and to have some discussion on strengths, limitations and applications for those who are.
- Reference: Stein et al 2013 (overview pdf)
Forthcoming
- Centring and Interactions
- Missing Data Methods
- 'Bayesian Solutions to Statistical Problems