In working on the experiment chapter of my dissertation, I found that I was yet again stretching the limits of my statistical knowledge. Fortunately, the Internets and Amazon.com came to my rescue, as they have so many times before. It is amazing how just-in-time access to web pages and online journals (and second-day delivery!) has helped [...]
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statistical vs. practical significance
the drugs are making me pretty tired; apparently fatigue is a potential side effect of the lovenox injections. according to my latest blood test i have reached “theraputic” levels for the anti-coagulant pills, so hopefully i won’t have to do the injections much longer. i spent 4 hours at school yesterday, and had to take [...]
new book about writing
i got a new book from Amazon today, called Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing by Robert Boice. he’s also the author of Advice for New Faculty Members, which was recommended by a new faculty member in our school at one of the doctoral development seminars earlier this fall. normally i would [...]
my foray into ruby on rails
today i started working on a programming project. i’m using Ruby on Rails to create a web application for my dissertation. i had this bright idea that it would make data collection and analysis much easier if my participants did the document and folder labeling and organization online rather than using hard copies. also, i [...]
statistics consultants rock!
The other day, we met with a second statistics consultant to find out whether we did our “logistic mixed model regression” correctly; or rather, to find out if he could see any problems or issues with how we’d specified the model, and how we’re interpreting it. We were feeling concerned about the analysis because neither [...]
