Our first meeting will be Thursday, July 19, from 12-1 in 143 Straub. Here’s the agenda: 1. Introductory and organizational stuff. We’ll talk about why we’re all here and what we are hoping to accomplish. We will also talk about possible topics for future meetings. 2. For our first topic, we thought it would be fun to read and discuss a recent article on analyzing stimulus effects in experiments. Say you’re running an experiment that has multiple trials within each of 2 or more conditions, and each trial presents a stimulus drawn from a larger possible set. If that sounds … Continue reading First meeting – stimulus effects article and discussion

Do you have a design, measurement, or analysis problem that you’d like some feedback on? Or is your summer feeling empty without a little statistics to keep it going? Three of us from the Department of Psychology (Elliot Berkman, Karyn Lewis and Sanjay Srivastava) are starting up a brownbag for consulting and discussion of statistics and methods. We’re calling it the Quantitative Methods Laboratory, which is a mouthful but conveniently abbreviates to “Meth Lab.” Meetings will serve 2 purposes: People can present on problems in design or analysis from their own research and get consultation and feedback from the group. … Continue reading Welcome to Meth Lab