Resources for learning (and teaching) statistics
This is an on-going collection of resources for learning and teaching statistical concepts.
This post was last updated on 2023-05-10.
Statisticial practices
- p-hacker app
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Ned Bicare writes: “I developed an online app that allows to practice creative data analysis and how to polish your p-values. It’s primarily aimed at young researchers who do not have our level of expertise yet, but I guess even old hands might learn one or two new tricks! It’s called “The p-hacker” (please note that ‘hacker’ is meant in a very positive way here. You should think of the cool hackers who fight for world peace). You can use the app in teaching, or to practice p-hacking yourself.”
Visualisations
- Guess the correlation
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Nice retro-look game for learning to guess the strength of the correlation in a cloud of points.
- Seeing Theory
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a visual introduction to probability and statistics. Many good visualisations.
- R<-Psychologist
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some cool shiny-based visualisations of important concepts.
Examples:
- Spurious correlations
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unending list of spurious correlations
- Linear regression demo
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nice and clean (but french) demo for linear regression
- Sampling Distribution Demo
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nice and interactive demonstration of sampling distributions
Cool datasets
- Human Penguin Project
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this is a cool many-labs dataset that has many interesting variables and can potentially be used for regression and ANOVA-based exercises
- Open Stats Lab
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nice collection of data-sets from real psychological studies that come with detailed assignments to reproduce the analyses from the accompanying papers
Lectures/tutorials
- Modern Regression by Cosma Shalizi
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really good but pretty mathematical introduction to regression. Check out the lecture scripts (e.g., this one)
Fun stuff
- Why not to trust statistics
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nice demonstration how measures of central tendency/variance can be misleading; includes bad drawings!
Blogs
Tweets
This is a collection of statistics-related tweets that I would like to keep…