A while ago I was playing around with the javascript package D3.js, and I began with this visualization—that I never really finished—of how a one-way ANOVA is calculated. I tried to make it look like a plot from ggplot2 except with interactive elements. Take a look at it after the jump Read more
In this post I show some R-examples on how to perform power analyses for mixed-design ANOVAs. The first example is analytical—and adapted from formulas used in G*Power (Faul et al., 2007), and the second example is a Monte Carlo simulation. Read more
Can you tell when error bars based on 95 % CIs or standard errors correspond to a significant p-value? Don’t fret if you think it’s hard, a study from 2005 showed that researchers in psychogoly, behavior neuroscience and medicine had a hard time judging when error bars from two independent groups signified a significant difference. Read more
Why are physicists talking about 5-sigma, and what’s it got to do with statistics? In this short post I’ll explain what 5-sigma is and why it’s not a measure of how certain scientist are that they’ve found the Higgs boson Read more
When talking about confidence intervals, Jacob Cohen famously said: “I suspect that the main reason they are not reported is that they are so embarrassingly large!” (Cohen, 1994). In this post I’ll take a look at the relationship between the 95 % CI for Cohen’s d and it’s corresponding sample size. Read more
Which country had the most PubMed citations in 2011? To find out I used R statistical software to analyze the affiliation of 986 427 articles. Read more
In this short article I present some data of the top 20 Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) journals with the most PubMed publications, and compare that to data from 2010 and 2011. Read more
In this short post I take a look at how to use R and ggplot2 to visualize effect sizes (Cohen’s d) and how to shade the overlapping area of two distributions. Read more
Ever wanted to look at PubMed trends and make elegant graphs of them? Here’s an R script that will do it automatically for you. Read more
I found out that last.fm had made data files available for their Best of 2011 artist list, and I thought it’d be a great opportunity to learn some more about data management in R and Ggplot2. Read more