This blog was published recently showing that the use of R continues to grow in academia. One of the graphs (Figure 1) showed citations (using google scholar) of different statistical packages in academic papers (to which I have added annotations). Figure 1: Citations of stats packages (from http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/04/rs-continued-growth-in-academia.html) At face value, this graph implies […]
Categories: Big Data, Quantitative
Continue ReadingThis will be brief because, you know, it’s nearly Christmas and for those of us that use this as an excuse to eat too many sweets and drink too much beer and wine, it’s not a time for statistics. However, after Christmas will very much be a time for statistics in the Field household (my […]
Categories: MentorSpace, Quantitative
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I have a blog on psychology and statistics that I thought might interest readers on this site. The following provides an overview of research methods related content on the blog with links to individual articles. GENERAL STATISTICS Getting Started: General advice on statistics for a thesis Preliminaries: Normality and transformations Scales: Scale construction; Scale construction […]
Categories: Quantitative, Tools and Resources
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