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SPSS Statistics Tutorial. The aim of these tutorials is to provide a gentle introduction to statistics used in the social sciences, and the computer programme we use to carry out these analyses.

SPSS Statistics Tutorial

1950s Study Reveals No Such Thing As An Average Pilot - You Might Have A Chance - World War Wings. Evening Standard / Getty Images The Problem – Good Pilots Crashing Good Planes One bleak day in the late 1940s, 17 pilots crashed for no apparent reason.

1950s Study Reveals No Such Thing As An Average Pilot - You Might Have A Chance - World War Wings

At this time in history, the United States was experiencing a baffling mystery: good pilots were crashing good planes on a regular basis and they didn’t know why. The Royal Observatory Greenwich - where east meets west: People: David Kinnebrook. Born in Norwich, Norfolk, David Kinnebrook is one of Maskelyne’s better known assistants on account of his unwitting role in giving birth to the science of experimental psychology.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich - where east meets west: People: David Kinnebrook

He was described in 1898 by Maunder (one of Christie’s assistants), as ‘an unconscious martyr to science’, having been dismissed over inconsistencies between his and Maskelyne’s observations. Although Maskelyne had deduced that for some reason Kinnebrook was not following the method prescribed for observing transits, later research and analysis by the astronomer Bessel suggested that this probably was not the case and that different observers responded to the same stimuli in different ways. It was his findings that gave rise to both the concept of the personal equation and to the science of experimental psychology. Kinnebrook had taken over the role of Assistant in 1794 from Joshua Garnett and was himself replaced by Thomas Evans in 1796. Further Reading. Value meal : gifsthatkeepongiving. Quiver Quantitative. 'Neva Giv Up' : aww. Winston Churchill's Never Give In Speech.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill's address to Harrow School on October 29, 1941 : Introduction.

Winston Churchill's Never Give In Speech

Importance of Statistical Literacy

Free Stats Books, Classes & Exercises. Free Data. Tippy Taps.  Meet calyptocephala attenuata. How to Analyze Information. How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs - The Atlantic. “We have all these instruments at home,” their father told me earlier.

How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs - The Atlantic

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Stats & Science Videos. Stats Vocab & Basic Tutorials. Identify Varibles Tutorials & Practice. Measurement, Constructs, Operational Definitions. Center, Spread, Normal Curve. Philosophy of Statistics. Reading Stats. Fake Journals & Misinformation. Facts, Denial, Bias, and Ideology. Replication Crisis & Misinformation. Basics of Numbers, Reporting & Learning. APA Formatting of Results.

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Levels and Types of Data. Choosing Statistical Tests. History Of Statistics (Good stuff, really) Statistics in the World, Papers, Examples. Estimation, Common Sense, Numeracy. Hypothesis Testing & Practice Questions. Skew and Kurtosis. Interpret z-scores & probabilities. Probability and Practice Problems. P-values.

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Histograms in spss by groups. Toughness testing - Cru-Wear, Z-Wear, Upper vs Lower temper, Cryo vs No Cryo - Knife Steel Nerds. Modern Statistics for Modern Biology. In the previous chapter, the knowledge of both the generative model and the values of the parameters provided us with probabilities we could use for decision making – for instance, whether we had really found an epitope.

Modern Statistics for Modern Biology

In many real situations, neither the generative model nor the parameters are known, and we will need to estimate them using the data we have collected. Statistical Modeling — The Pragmatic Guide. Statistical Modeling — The Pragmatic Guide Marcos Silva Follow.

Statistical Modeling — The Pragmatic Guide

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Mathematical Reasoning. Software. Polls. Exporting Results to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel Files. Please note that DISQUS operates this forum.

Exporting Results to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel Files

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Writing Quality. Problems with the K/S test. Food for Thought During Technical Learning. Stats Battles. Inferential Statistics: Hypothesis Testing Using Normal Deviate Z -Test. Enhancing learning and retrieval of new information: a review of the forward testing effect. Mechanisms that operate during either the encoding or retrieval phase, or both, may contribute to this facilitatory forward effect of interim testing and many possible explanations have been proposed to account for this effect.

Enhancing learning and retrieval of new information: a review of the forward testing effect

Here we briefly review these explanations. It is important to emphasize at the outset that these accounts are not mutually exclusive, that most are at a preliminary stage of development, and that few have been subject to direct testing of their key predictions. To aid understanding, we classify the accounts along two major dimensions, whether they regard encoding or retrieval as the main locus of the forward testing effect, and whether or not they propose that the effect is mediated by changes in motivation (see Table 1). Both the release from PI and encoding reset theories focus on the roles of context changes in the forward testing effect. Hence, Wissman et al. proposed an activation facilitation theory to account for their forward testing effect. University of Michigan-Flint. Science Education > Cognitive Psychology.

Verbal Priming Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Human memory seems to work in two broad ways.

Science Education > Cognitive Psychology

Calculus III. Show Mobile NoticeShow All NotesHide All Notes You appear to be on a device with a "narrow" screen width (i.e. you are probably on a mobile phone). Due to the nature of the mathematics on this site it is best views in landscape mode. If your device is not in landscape mode many of the equations will run off the side of your device (should be able to scroll to see them) and some of the menu items will be cut off due to the narrow screen width. The Disability Studies Reader - Lennard J. Davis - Google Books. Biology statistics made simple using Excel.


  1. pag101 Sep 30 2013
    Resources based on classes at SNHU, Argosy University, Brandman University