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Keeping your scientific data and analysis scripts in order is not only good style but a prerequisite to enable reproducible and accessible scientific evidence. Beyond that, keeping your...
01 January 2015 7,234 4 View
A million dollar research grant was issued to reject null hypothesis X. Unlucky researcher A could not find statistical evidence to reject X. With his test, he found a non-significant p value of...
02 February 2014 4,213 58 View
I write my manuscripts in LaTeX but some of my collaborators want to stick to Word. This is why I need to convert from LaTeX to Word occasionally. Do you have experience with latex2rtf, pandoc,...
11 November 2013 719 3 View
For example, when dividing a large sample into a training and a test set, how do I best choose the bins for an age stratification? Should bins reflect years, decades, or should they be based on...
01 January 2013 6,144 11 View
There are a variety of software tools ranging from simple, non-hierarchical to-do lists to fully grown project management tools. I think that for many scientists, the right tool lies somewhere in...
11 November 2012 3,501 35 View
The opinion on this diverges in the literature. Some claim that AIC does require the true model to be in the set of candidate models, that is, in the case of linear regression, the true model is...
11 November 2012 5,069 18 View
Please kindly state your operating system and maybe drop a few lines, why the mentioned tool is better than the others. Looking forward to here what tools you are working with!
10 October 2012 4,659 44 View
Among the great variety of programs (M+, OpenMx, lavaan, sem, Amos, Onyx, ...), what is your favorite program and why? What makes this program better than the others? What features are you still...
10 October 2012 272 93 View
This is a toy example with four variables v,w,x,y and a binary outcome variable z. What approach would you take to find a statistical or algorithmic model to predict "z"? If you choose to perform...
10 October 2012 6,225 15 View
In empirical research, it is often of interest, whether two classes are different. While in the simplest form, this is achieved by performing a t-test, classifiers can be used to answer such...
10 October 2012 1,446 19 View
The shorter, the better! (*) assuming that your parents don't have a formal statistical training. If so, go up your family tree as many levels as needed.
09 September 2012 6,555 26 View
