Lectures

• Week 1
  • Understanding variable types in R
  • Understanding the Workspace in R
  • Container Variable Types and Accessing Elements in R
  • Writing and Calling Functions in R
  • Container Variable Type Coercion in R
  • Assignment Operators in R
  • Loops and Conditional Flow in R
  • Getting Help in R
  • Creating a Minimal Reproducible Example
• Week 2
  • Using external libraries
  • Introduction to data.table
  • Adding and updating data.table columns
  • data.table joins
  • data.table reshaping
  • Chaining data.table calls
• Week 3
  • Introduction to ggplot
  • Basic Aesthetics in ggplot
  • Common Geoms in ggplot
  • Scales in ggplot2
  • Customization and Themes in ggplot2
  • Faceting with ggplot2
  • Creating PDFs with R Markdown
• Week 4
  • Visuals Visuals Visuals
  • Core Concepts of Statistical Thinking
  • Descriptive Statistics and Data Visualization in R: Central Tendency
  • Descriptive Statistics and Data Visualization in R: Dispersion and Spread
  • Basic Experiment Design in Psychology and Cognitive Science
• Week 5
  • Fundamentals of Probability
  • Random Variables and Probability Distributions
  • Moments of Random Variables
  • Key Probability Functions
• Week 6
  • Central Limit Theorem part 1
  • Central Limit Theorem part 2
  • Central Limit Theorem part 3
  • Distribution of Sample Means
  • Normal test
  • Two-tailed tests
  • Critical Values
  • Confidence Intervals
  • Three Ways to Make a Decision
• Week 7
  • Inferential Error and Statistical Power
  • Review of Power
  • Effect Size
  • P-Hacking
• Week 8
  • Standardisation and the \(z\) distribution
  • The single sample \(t\)-test
  • \(t\)-tests for comparing two means
  • Putting it all together
• Week 9
  • Assumptions in \(t\)-tests
  • One-way ANOVA
  • Assumptions in one-way ANOVA
• Week 10
  • Repeated Measures One-way ANOVA
  • Two-way ANOVA
  • Mixed ANOVA
  • ANOVA practice questions
  • Final project example (1st draft – TOO LONG!)
• Week 11
  • Correlation
  • Estimation in simple linear regression
  • Assumptions in simple linear regression
  • Model comparison in simple linear regression
  • Simple linear regression example questions
• Week 12
  • Multiple regression
  • Partial correlation
  • General Linear Model (GLM)
• Week 13
  • Model complexity
  • Effect size overview
  • Another look at the F ratio in linear models
  • GLM with repeated measures
  • Reporting regressions
  • Example questions