I came across a really interesting paper recently after seeing it referred to in a news story: Female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’ math achievement (Beilock et al., 2010, PNAS, with Supplemental information)
The researchers recruited 17 first- and second-grade teachers (all female) and assessed the math achievement of the students in their classrooms at the [...]
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beyond significance testing
I’ve been reading a book lately before bed, a little bit at a time: Beyond Significance Testing, by Rex B. Kline. It isn’t exactly a suspenseful page-turner; maybe if I tried reading it some other time of day than when I am already sleepy I might be able to get through it faster.
The purpose of [...]
model selection book
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 [...]
results!
after about a month of on-and-off panic about my dissertation experiment analysis (and too many marathon sessions with crappy R documentation), i now feel confident in saying that YES, i do have some pretty interesting results! i’ll be working on writing everything up for a rapidly approaching paper deadline; i’m guessing i’ll be posting bits [...]
R in the NY Times
if any of you haven’t seen this yet, the NY Times published an article about R! for some strange reason, it didn’t make the “most emailed” feed. go figure.
Data Analysts Captured By R’s Power
the first thing i thought when i saw it was, way to go R! i had never heard of R when i [...]
