Jeromy Anglim's Blog: Psychology and Statistics


Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Using R to replicate common SPSS multiple regression output

The following post replicates some of the standard output you might get from a multiple regression analysis in SPSS. A copy of the code in RMarkdown format is available on github. The post was motivated by this previous post that discussed using R to teach psychology students statistics.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Writing a Concise Introduction to a Psychology Journal Article: An Article Deconstruction

I often talk about article deconstruction as a useful method for extracting principles for writing journal articles. The following is an article deconstruction of the introduction section of Fujita and Diener (2005). The writing principles extracted may be relevant to others writing introductions to journal articles in psychology.

Monday, November 11, 2013

How to convert manual APA references to Endnote references in Word

When collaborating on a journal article with colleagues I sometimes get Word documents that have manually formatted references. I often want to convert the manual references to Endnote references. The following post discusses a workflow for doing this.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Tutorials, Answers, and Data Files for Multivariate Research Methods Course using SPSS and Amos

I recently developed a set of tutorials for teaching research methods using SPSS and Amos to I/O psychology students. I thought they might be useful for other instructors or people learning intermediate multivariate research methods to social and behavioural science students. Thus, I have made the resources available as a downloadable repository.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Evaluating the Potential Incorporation of R into Research Methods Education in Psychology

I was recently completing some professional development activities that required me to write a report on a self-chosen topic related to diversity in student backgrounds. I chose to use the opportunity to reflect on the potential for using R to teach psychology students research methods. I thought I'd share the report in case it interests anyone.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Google Reader Replacements: Feedly and The Old Reader

This post discusses the impending demise of Google Reader and configuring Feedly as a replacement.