Data Analysis Practice and Skills

The Craft of Statistical Analysis Free Webinars

• The 13 Steps to Running any Statistical Model

Statistically Speaking Trainings

• (Just About) Everything You Need To Know Before Starting a Survey
• The Fundamentals of Sample Size Calculations
• Power Analysis and Sample Size Determination Using Simulation
• Small Sample Statistics
• A Data Analyst’s Guide to Methods and Tools for Reproducible Research
• Communicating Statistical Results to Non-Statisticians
• Communicating Statistical Results: When to Use Tables vs Graphs to Tell the Data’s Story

Articles at The Analysis Factor

Planning and Choosing a Data Analysis

• Strategies for Choosing and Planning a Statistical Analysis
• When To Fight For Your Analysis and When To Jump Through Hoops
• Chi-square test vs. Logistic Regression: Is a fancier test better?
• Statistical Consulting 101: 4 Questions you Need to Answer to Choose a Statistical Method
• 5 Practical Issues to Consider in Choosing a Statistical Analysis
• What Makes a Statistical Analysis Wrong?

Data Preparation

• An Easy Way to Reverse Code Scale items
• Preparing Data for Analysis is (more than) Half the Battle
• Rescaling Sets of Variables to Be on the Same Scale
• The Wide and Long Data Format for Repeated Measures Data
• On Data Integrity and Cleaning

Running any Data Analysis

• 3 Tips for Keeping Track of Data Files in a Large Data Analysis
• Tricks for Using Word to Make Statistical Syntax Easier
• Statistical Rules of Thumb: Essential Practices or Urban Myths?
• The Data Analysis Work Flow: 9 Strategies for Keeping Track of your Analyses and Output
• Respect Your Data

Communicating Results

• Examples for Writing up Results of Mixed Models
• Adding Statistical Equations to Word using Microsoft Equation Editor