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Member Training: Analysis of Means

March 31st, 2022 by

Stage 2Analysis of Means (ANOM) is an underappreciated methodology that has relevance to quality control and institutional comparisons.

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Member Training: Interrupted Time Series

February 28th, 2022 by

Interrupted time series analysis is a useful and specialized tool for understanding the impact of a change in circumstances on a long-term trend. The data for interrupted time series is a specific type of longitudinal data and must meet two criteria.

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Member Training: Heterogeneity in Meta-analysis

January 31st, 2022 by

Meta-analysis allows us to synthesize the results of separate studies. The goal is to assess the mean effect size and also heterogeneity – how much the effect size varies across studies.  (more…)


Member Training: R for Menu Users Software Tutorial

December 30th, 2021 by

In this nearly 6-hour tutorial you will learn menu-based R libraries so you can use R without having to fuss with R code. These libraries don’t cover everything R can do, but they do quite a bit and can set you up to make running R much easier.

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Member Training: ANOVA Post-hoc Tests: Practical Considerations

October 1st, 2021 by

Stage 2Post-hoc tests, pairwise or other linear contrasts, are typical in an analysis of variance (ANOVA) setting to understand which group means differ. They incorporate p-value adjustments to avoid concluding that group means differ when they actually do not. There are several adjustments that can be considered for conducting multiple post-hoc tests, including single-step and stepwise adjustments. (more…)


Member Training: Moving to a World Beyond p<0.05

August 2nd, 2021 by

Stage 1

For nearly a hundred years the concept of “statistical significance” has been fundamental to statistics and to science. And for nearly that long, it has been controversial and misused as well. (more…)