Jeromy Anglim's Blog: Psychology and Statistics

In this post I present an example of using Sweave to prepare a PDF of formatted multiple choice questions. More broadly the example shows ho...

This post provides a brief introduction to make and makefiles . In particular it describes how to set up make on Windows with an emphasis ...

I've recently adopted Markdown as a markup language for editing my blog posts. This post discusses (a) the benefits of Markdown, (b) in...

This post sets out how to calculate confidence intervals for correlations using R. Because I often get this question from people unfamiliar ...

LaTeX and mathematics go well together. At the risk of preaching to the converted, this post sets out (a) reasons to learn to write mathema...

This post provides a guide to getting started with Beamer, a popular LaTeX package for preparing slide presentations. The post: (a) Lists ...

For those who don't already know, Beamer is a useful package in LaTeX for preparing slide presentations. I have a Beamer template of pr...

For some time I've been searching for online video courses on mathematical statistics. I previously posted a list of mathematics v...

The following post sets out one way of binding the navigation keys to convenient keys on the keyboard on Windows. The approach means that I...

This post provides advice for processing and importing raw data from Inquisit into SPSS. It is also relevant to importing Inquisit data int...

Canonical correlation is a method of modelling the relationship between two sets of variables. This post provides: (a) Examples of when ca...

I previously posted a set of links to online videos on R . I organised videos into three categories: (1) what is R; (2) how to do basic da...

New York Times reports on an interesting UCLA study that involved video taping 32 Los Angeles families over the course of a week. The ...

I was recently talking to a researcher who had conducted a cognitive experiment that involved experimentally manipulating a variable x , a ...

This post briefly discusses how to run a nonlinear regression in SPSS. Specifically, it discusses the scenario where you have a a set of k ...

In this post I present a 34-minute video on using R. The video is based on an analysis of 1924 to 2006 Winter Olympic Medals that I pr...

The R programming language includes many abbreviations. Abbreviations exist in function names, argument names, and allowed values for arg...

G*Power 3 is an excellent piece of software for performing statistical power analysis. It is particularly useful for applied researchers w...

If you want to learn about R through videos, there are now a large number of options. This post provides links to many of these video under...

The following sets out how I'd like to see access improved for full-text journal articles where an institutional subscription applies.  ...

This post presents some rough notes reviewing the literature related to office layout and building design and the implications for social ...

The Department of methodology and Evaluation Research at Universität Jena has made available a set of free online video courses on data ana...

This post discusses my experience with WinEdt 6.0 as a text editor for writing documents in LaTeX. In this post I outline: (a) Why I have c...

This post discusses and evaluates the use of PubGet for quickly obtaining full-text PDF journal articles via institutional subscriptions. ...

This post presents strategies for accessing proprietary full text PDF journal articles in ways that minimise the number of steps. It assum...

This post provides links to sets of RSS feeds on psychology journals, I/O psychology journals, and assorted blogs. If you are new to RSS a...

If you're an academic researcher, it's important to keep up with the literature in your field. I've recently been thinking abo...

If you do research, JabRef is a great tool for managing a personal repository of PDFs. JabRef allows you to link your citations with f...

The Age has an article on the reported connection between using Facebook and Syphilis that is doing the rounds on the Internet. While the...

Every Six months or so I like to update the Site Map for my blog jeromyanglim.blogspot.com . Thus, if you're new to the blog, The S...

Over the last few weeks I've been exploring text editors for writing LaTeX documents. I wrote these notes when I was using TeXnicCenter ...

This post discusses my experience getting APA style references in LaTeX. This includes both in-text citations and the end of document refere...

This post discusses my experience converting a large MS Word document into a LaTeX document using Word-to-LaTeX. Along the way I encountered...

This post sets out a procedure that I used to migrate a large set of Endnote references in a Word Document to a Latex document with BibTeX r...

I recently had to clean up a BibTeX database containing around 1,000 references. One of the clean up tasks was to ensure that page numbers w...

Many of the major open source programs that I use (e.g., R, LaTeX, Eclipse) run on Windows, Linux, and Mac. These programs tend to be design...

This post discusses the issue of choosing a default pattern for the BibTex key generator in JabRef.

I sometimes speak to researchers who have a design where units are nested within clusters (e.g., 200 employees nested within 50 stores). Whi...

Being able to press a single button that runs all your statistical analyses and integrates the output into your final report is a beautiful ...

The Winter Olympics are on. The Guardian's DataBlog  has graciously compiled a database on  Winter Olympic Medals . Thus, I thought I...