In a recent article (Nieuwenhuis, et al., 2011, Nature Neuroscience, 14, 1105-1107), neuroscientists were shown to be statistically retarded … or something like that. Ben Goldacre wrote an article about this in the Guardian newspaper, which caused a bit of a kerfuffle amongst British psychologists because in the first published version he accidentally lumped psychologists […]
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Continue ReadingSomeone recently asked me about how to incorporate results from Structural Equation Models into a meta-analysis. The short answer is ‘with great difficulty’, although that’s not terribly helpful. One approach it to do the meta-analysis at the correlation level, which is good if the SEM studies report the zero-order correlations (which hopefully they do). That […]
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Continue ReadingOne of the frustrating things about using R (although it can be a positive thing too) is that there are often 25 different ways to do the same, or almost the same thing. Therefore, you want to do something, you have a look around, and then you find something that looks like it does what […]
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