Jeromy Anglim's Blog: Psychology and Statistics

Posts on statistics, study design, statistical computing, R, and more with a focus on research applications in psychology.

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

A Publication Workflow for Organising Files and Directories

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The following describes my workflow for publishing journal articles. It defines a set of rules for organising the files and directories asso...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Home, End, Page Up, Page Down Keys in OSX

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Shortcut keys for navigation are inconsistent in OSX across applications. Notionally the home and end keys are Fn + Left / Right and Page Up...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Ways that closed access academic publishers could improve

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Accessing journal articles has certainly got easier over the years. Nonetheless, there are still many issues with how closed-access journals...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Generating APA style tables in R: Current challenges

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This post reviews some aspects of generating formatted tables using R suitable for inclusion in a manuscript conforming to APA style. I revi...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Suggestions for how R and RStudio could improve auto-completion and usability of R

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RStudio has improved the power of auto-completion in R and generally increased usability. However, there remains the potential to improve di...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Workflow for Completing a Revise and Resubmit of a Journal Article in Psychology

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This post discusses my workflow for completing a revise and resubmit. I have a template document for representing revise and resubmit respo...

Managing Timeframes from Initial Submission to Final Acceptance of Journal Articles in Psychology

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This post discusses issues related to the managing the timeframe from an initial submission to a journal to final acceptance at that or anot...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Customising ProjectTemplate in R

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This post talks about my workflow for getting started with a new data analysis project using the ProjectTemplate package.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Using R to replicate common SPSS multiple regression output

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The following post replicates some of the standard output you might get from a multiple regression analysis in SPSS. A copy of the code in R...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Writing a Concise Introduction to a Psychology Journal Article: An Article Deconstruction

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I often talk about article deconstruction as a useful method for extracting principles for writing journal articles. The following is an art...
Monday, November 11, 2013

How to convert manual APA references to Endnote references in Word

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When collaborating on a journal article with colleagues I sometimes get Word documents that have manually formatted references. I often want...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Tutorials, Answers, and Data Files for Multivariate Research Methods Course using SPSS and Amos

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I recently developed a set of tutorials for teaching research methods using SPSS and Amos to I/O psychology students. I thought they might b...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Evaluating the Potential Incorporation of R into Research Methods Education in Psychology

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I was recently completing some professional development activities that required me to write a report on a self-chosen topic related to dive...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Google Reader Replacements: Feedly and The Old Reader

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This post discusses the impending demise of Google Reader and configuring Feedly as a replacement.
Monday, July 23, 2012

Beamer presentations using pandoc, markdown, LaTeX, and a makefile

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This post discusses the creation of beamer presentations using a combination of markdown, pandoc, and LaTeX. This workflow offers the potent...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Video: knitr, R Markdown, and R Studio: Introduction to Reproducible Analysis

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This post presents the video of a talk that I presented in July 2012 at Melbourne R Users on using knitr, R Markdown, and R Studio to perfor...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Converting Sweave LaTeX to knitr LaTeX: A case study

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The following post documents the steps I needed to take in order to convert a project using Sweave LaTeX into one using knitr LaTeX.
Monday, June 4, 2012

How to Convert Sweave LaTeX to knitr R Markdown: Winter Olympic Medals Example

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The following post shows how to manually convert a Sweave LaTeX document into a knitr R Markdown document. The post (1) reviews many of the ...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Example Reproducible Report using R Markdown: Analysis of California Schools Test Data

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This is a quick set of analyses of the California Test Score dataset. The post was produced using R Markdown in RStudio 0.96. The main pur...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Getting Started with R Markdown, knitr, and Rstudio 0.96

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This post examines the features of R Markdown using knitr in Rstudio 0.96. This combination of tools provides an exciting improvement in ...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

How to plot three categorical variables and one continuous variable using ggplot2

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This post shows how to produce a plot involving three categorical variables and one continuous variable using ggplot2 in R.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Getting Started with JAGS, rjags, and Bayesian Modelling

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This post provides links to various resources on getting started with Bayesian modelling using JAGS and R. It discusses: (1) what is JAGS; (...
Friday, February 17, 2012

New Psychology and Cognitive Science Question and Answer Site: COGSCI.SE

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There is now a new website for researchers to ask and answer questions on topics related to psychology and cognitive science. The site is co...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Tips for Undergraduates Interested in a Career in Organisational Psychology: Australian Perspective

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Undergraduate psychology students often ask me about careers in organisational psychology. This post aims to provide a few links and resourc...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Correlation Resources: SPSS, R, Causality, Interpretation, and APA Style Reporting

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This post provides links to a range of resources related to the use and interpretation of correlations. I wanted to provide a page with link...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Transition to Linux and Ubuntu: The Experience of a Quantitative Social Scientist

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This post discusses my experience migrating to Ubuntu from Windows from the perspective of a quantitatively oriented researcher in psycholog...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Guide to Getting Started with R: 2011 Update

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In mid-2009, I wrote a post on getting started with R. A lot has happened in the world of R over the last two years. New books, videos, on...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Case Study in Customising Syntax Highlighting and Folding in Vim for a Niche Scripting Language Called Inquisit

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This post presents my efforts to setup a productive environment for editing Inquisit scripts in Vim. In addition to being relevant to people...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Using Vim and VimOutliner as a Brainstorming and Outlining Tool

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This post discuses using Vim as an outlining tool. It focuses particularly on VimOutliner. In particular the post (a) discusses reasons why ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

How to Ask Me a Statistics Question

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This post includes instructions on how to ask me a written statistics question.
Monday, February 21, 2011

R Optimisation Tips using Optim and Maximum Likelihood

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This post summarises some R modelling tips I picked up at AMPC2011 .

R versus Matlab in Mathematical Psychology

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I recently attended the 2011 Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference. This post summarises a few thoughts I had on the use of R, Mat...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Reasons for Transitioning to Vim: Bringing LaTeX, R, Sweave and More under One Roof

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This post describes the reasons for my transition to Vim.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

2010 in Review: 99 Most Popular Pages on Jeromy Anglim's Blog

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In the spirit of taking stock of the year that's been, and in the spirit of festive television repeats, this post reviews 2010 for th...

Question and Answer Sites on Statistics, Computing, Research, and Psychology

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This post sets out some of my favourite question and answer sites on topics related to statistics, computing, research, and psychology. ...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Video of Reproducible Research with R: Melbourne R Users 1st Dec 2010

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As previously mentioned I gave a talk at Melbourne R Users Group titled "Reproducible Research and R Workflow". It covered techno...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

R Workflow: Slides from a Talk at Melbourne R Users (1st Dec 2010)

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I gave a presentation at Melbourne R Users on the topic of R Workflow. The presentation covered R code organisation, and useful R related ...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Sweave Tutorial 3: Console Input and Output - Multiple Choice Test Analysis

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This post provides an example of using Sweave to perform an item analysis of a multiple choice test. It is designed as a tutorial for learn...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Sweave Tutorial 2: Batch Individual Personality Reports using R, Sweave, and LaTeX

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This post documents an example of using Sweave to generate individualised personality reports based on responses to a personality test. Ea...

Getting Started with Git, EGit, Eclipse, and GitHub: Version Control for R Projects

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This post provides information on (a) installing Git using the Eclipse plugin Egit. (b) uploading repositories to GitHub, and (c) links to ...
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