Publications by Shravan Vasishth
Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis: Video lectures now available on youtube
These recordings are part of a set of videos that are available from the free four-week online course Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis, taught over the openhpi.de portal. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog). R-bloggers.com offers dail...
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Free MOOC course at openHPI.de: Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis (starts 25 Jan 2023)
Details here: https://open.hpi.de/courses/bayesian-statistics2023 Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog). R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking ...
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Applications open: The Seventh Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, 11-15 September 2023
Applications are open (till 1st April 2023( for the seventh summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology, to be held in Potsdam, Germany.Summer school website: https://vasishth.github.io/smlp2023/Some of the highlights: 1. Four parallel courses on frequentist and Bayesian methods (introductory/intermediate and advanced)2....
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Ever wondered how the probability of the null hypothesis being true changes given a significant result?
TRIGGER WARNING: These simulations might fundamentally shake your belief system. USE WITH CARE. In a recently accepted paper in the open access journal Quantitative Methods for Psychology that Daniel Schad led, we discuss how, using Bayes’ rule, one can explore the change in the probability of a null hypothesis being true (call it theta) when y...
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Summer School “Methods in Language Sciences” (16-20 August 2022, Ghent, Belgium): Registrations open
I was asked to advertise this summer school (I will be teaching a 2.5 day course on linear mixed modeling, and will give a keynote lecture on the use of Bayesian methods in linguistics/psychology). The text below is from the organizers.Summer School “Methods in Language Sciences” 2022:Registrations are openTop quality research requires outsta...
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How to get ESS style indentation in textmate
This should be standard in Textmate, I don’t know why one has to go through so many steps to get it working:http://gragusa.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/textmate-emacs-like-indentation-for-r-files/ Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog). ...
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Mike’s and my book is coming out
Our book is finally coming out: You can buy it on Amazon.com, Amazon.de, or Springer.com. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog). R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click h...
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Shravan Vasishth’s Slog (Statistics blog) 2010-10-15 06:47:00
I foolishly tried to convert a matrix M to a vector using vector:vector(M)But this is done column wise, so that adjacent row items end up non-adjacent.The right way to do this seems to be:library(data)unmatrix(M, byrow=TRUE) Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shravan Vasish...
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Review of Distance Course: Graduate Certificate in Statistics offered at Sheffield [completed: 3 June 2012]
Recently, on Andrew Gelman’s blog there was a discussion about how to get yourself a statistics education (presumably without going through the whole process of becoming a professional statistician). Here‘s the discussion on Gelman’s blog, with lots of suggestions on how to achieve this goal.This was the kind of problem that motivated me to...
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Linear models summary sheet
As part of my long slog towards statistical understanding, I started making notes on the very specific topic of linear models. The details are tricky and hard to keep in mind, and it is difficult to go back and forth between books and notes to try to review them. So I tried to summarize the basic ideas into a few pages (the summary sh...
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