Some Basic Statistics for psycholinguistic experiments
Below are a few PowerPoint slide shows that Helen Majewski and I used for a ‘Statistics Primer Workshop’ in January 2006
Part I
A short conceptual overview of ANOVA’s
1) ANOVA’s – A Basic Introduction (Florian)
(See Slides in Browser, Power Point Slides, pdf-handout version)
2) Multi-Factor Designs (Helen)
(Power Point Slides, pdf-handout version)
Part II
Practical Matters: Step-by-step instructions for dealing with your data and analyzing it in SPSS
3) Handling your data in Excel (Helen)
(Power Point Slides, pdf-handout version)
4) Working with SPSS
a) Making a Histogram (Florian)
(See Slides in Browser, Power Point Slides, pdf-handout version)
b) Running a T-test (Florian)
(See Slides in Browser, Power Point Slides, pdf-handout version)
c) Running a 2 x 2 ANOVA (Florian)
(See Slides in Browser, Power Point Slides, pdf-handout version)
Some more statistics links
– Mako organized a similar event a while back, and her slides are still available on her website at: http://people.umass.edu/hirotani/stat.html. They include a step-by-step instruction for doing ANOVA’s in Systat.
– A nice brief overview on reporting results in APA format
http://www.ilstu.edu/~jhkahn/apastats.html
– There are quite a number of online statistics text books. I haven’t looked into them systematically, but I sometimes browse around in them for short explanations of concepts. Two examples are
– http://www.statsoftinc.com/textbook/stathome.html
– http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html
