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*MATLAB is sometimes used
*MATLAB is sometimes used
*Using MacCurveFit for OS9; rarely used
*Using MacCurveFit for OS9; rarely used
==Bootstrapping==
[http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/Resampling/BootstMeans/bootstrapping_means.html Howell's] pages
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[[Holcombe:CircularStatistics|Circular Statistics]]
[[Holcombe:CircularStatistics|Circular Statistics]]

Revision as of 21:43, 2 January 2009

Recent members

Alex Holcombe
• Ryo Nakayama



Technical

Skills Checklist
Python Programming
Psychopy/VisionEgg Installation Notes
R analysis,plot,stats
Statistics
Buttonbox
Buttonbox with photocell
Programming Cheat Sheets


The picturing of data allows us to be sensitive not only to the multiple hypotheses that we hold, but to the many more we have not yet thought of, regard as unlikely, or think impossible -- Tukey, 1974

The great fun of information visualization is that it gives you answers to questions you didn’t know you had -- Ben Shneiderman

Jody Culham error bars lecture

"If events are dependent (whether causal or not), the aggregate is not going to be Gaussian. "- why?

Fitting curves to data

  • R is often used in the lab
  • Python alone and with SciPy can be used easily, example here
  • MATLAB is sometimes used
  • Using MacCurveFit for OS9; rarely used

Bootstrapping

Howell's pages

Circular Statistics