Past Sessions
13th December: Self-report questionnaires & Christmas session
Lead: Tim, Tom & Aja
Stats drop in and/or quiz.
Focus Paper:
- Meade, A. W. and Craig, S. B. (2012). Identifying careless responses in survey data. Psychol Methods, 17. 437-455. doi. PMID.
- Real-time Feedback (Three strikes, "Slow down…")
- Recording response times
- Faking scales
- Infrequency scales
- Consistency
Topic Page:: Questionnaires
29th November: Longitudinal models
Lead: Riccardo Marioni - CCACE, Department of Psychology
PPT: TBC
Topic Page:: Longitudinal models
15th November: Random Effects in Mixed Effects Regression
Lead: John Pate & Moreno Coco - School of Informatics
Abstract: I'll start by walking through an overview of mixed effects regression models: what they are, how they're different from standard regression, and why you might be interested in mixed effects models. Next, we'll look at some of the additional complicating issues that mixed effects models bring up. Specifically, we'll talk about model selection issues
Focus Paper: Barr et al (2012) "Maximal" random effects structures
Topic Page:: Random effects
1st November: Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
Presenter: Tim Bates
Focus Paper:
- Borghans, L., Golsteyn, B. H., Heckman, J. and Humphries, J. E. (2011). Identification Problems in Personality Psychology. Pers Individ Dif, 51. 315-320. doi. PMID.
Thursday 18th October: Decision Points in Factor Analysis
Lead: Tom Booth & Aja Murray
Topic Page:: Factor_Analysis
Thursday 4th October: Multiple testing.
Lead: Aja Murray
Topic Page:: Multiple_testing
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