January 1st, 2014 by Karen Grace-Martin
In this follow-up to December’s webinar, we’ll finish up our discussion of interactions.
There is something about interactions that is incredibly confusing.
An interaction between two predictor variables means that one predictor variable affects a third variable differently at different values of the other predictor.
How you understand that interaction depends on many things, including:
- Whether one, or both, of the predictor variables is categorical or numerical
- How each of those variables is coded (specifically, whether each categorical variable is dummy or effect coded and whether numerical variables are centered)
- Whether it’s a two-way or three-way interaction
- Whether there is a directionality to the interaction (moderation) or not
Sometimes you need to get pretty sophisticated in your coding, in the output you ask for, and in writing out regression equations.
In this webinar, we’ll examine how to put together and break apart output to understand what your interaction is telling you.
Note: This training is an exclusive benefit to members of the Statistically Speaking Membership Program and part of the Stat’s Amore Trainings Series. Each Stat’s Amore Training is approximately 90 minutes long.
About the Instructor
Karen Grace-Martin helps statistics practitioners gain an intuitive understanding of how statistics is applied to real data in research studies.
She has guided and trained researchers through their statistical analysis for over 15 years as a statistical consultant at Cornell University and through The Analysis Factor. She has master’s degrees in both applied statistics and social psychology and is an expert in SPSS and SAS.
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December 1st, 2013 by Karen Grace-Martin
There is something about interactions that is incredibly confusing.
An interaction between two predictor variables means that one predictor variable affects a third variable differently at different values of the other predictor.
How you understand that interaction depends on many things, including:
- Whether one, or both, of the predictor variables is categorical or numerical
- How each of those variables is coded (specifically, whether each categorical variable is dummy or effect coded and whether numerical variables are centered)
- Whether it’s a two-way or three-way interaction
- Whether there is a directionality to the interaction (moderation) or not
Sometimes you need to get pretty sophisticated in your coding, in the output you ask for, and in writing out regression equations.
In this webinar, we’ll examine how to put together and break apart output to understand what your interaction is telling you.
Note: This training is an exclusive benefit to members of the Statistically Speaking Membership Program and part of the Stat’s Amore Trainings Series. Each Stat’s Amore Training is approximately 90 minutes long.
About the Instructor
Karen Grace-Martin helps statistics practitioners gain an intuitive understanding of how statistics is applied to real data in research studies.
She has guided and trained researchers through their statistical analysis for over 15 years as a statistical consultant at Cornell University and through The Analysis Factor. She has master’s degrees in both applied statistics and social psychology and is an expert in SPSS and SAS.
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June 1st, 2013 by Karen Grace-Martin
MANOVA is the multivariate (meaning multiple dependent variables) version of ANOVA, but there are many misconceptions about it.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- When to use MANOVA and when you’d be better off using individual ANOVAs
- How to follow up the overall MANOVA results to interpret
- What those strange statistics mean — Wilk’s lambda, Roy’s Greatest Root (hint — it’s not a carrot)
- Its relationship to discriminant analysis
Note: This training is an exclusive benefit to members of the Statistically Speaking Membership Program and part of the Stat’s Amore Trainings Series. Each Stat’s Amore Training is approximately 90 minutes long.
About the Instructor
Karen Grace-Martin helps statistics practitioners gain an intuitive understanding of how statistics is applied to real data in research studies.
She has guided and trained researchers through their statistical analysis for over 15 years as a statistical consultant at Cornell University and through The Analysis Factor. She has master’s degrees in both applied statistics and social psychology and is an expert in SPSS and SAS.
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May 1st, 2013 by Karen Grace-Martin
Graphing predicted values from a regression model or means from an ANOVA makes interpretation of results much easier.
Every statistical software will graph predicted values for you. But the more complicated your model, the harder it can be to get the graph you want in the format you want.
Excel isn’t all that useful for estimating the statistics, but it has some very nice features that are useful for doing data analysis, one of which is graphing.
In this webinar, I will demonstrate how to calculate predicted means from a linear and a logistic regression model, then graph them. It will be particularly useful to you if you don’t have a very clear sense of where those predicted values come from.
Note: This training is an exclusive benefit to members of the Statistically Speaking Membership Program and part of the Stat’s Amore Trainings Series. Each Stat’s Amore Training is approximately 90 minutes long.
About the Instructor
Karen Grace-Martin helps statistics practitioners gain an intuitive understanding of how statistics is applied to real data in research studies.
She has guided and trained researchers through their statistical analysis for over 15 years as a statistical consultant at Cornell University and through The Analysis Factor. She has master’s degrees in both applied statistics and social psychology and is an expert in SPSS and SAS.
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April 1st, 2013 by Karen Grace-Martin
Hierarchical regression is a very common approach to model building that allows you to see the incremental contribution to a model of sets of predictor variables.
Popular for linear regression in many fields, the approach can be used in any type of regression model — logistic regression, linear mixed models, or even ANOVA.
In this webinar, we’ll go over the concepts and steps, and we’ll look at how it can be useful in different contexts.
Note: This training is an exclusive benefit to members of the Statistically Speaking Membership Program and part of the Stat’s Amore Trainings Series. Each Stat’s Amore Training is approximately 90 minutes long.
About the Instructor
Karen Grace-Martin helps statistics practitioners gain an intuitive understanding of how statistics is applied to real data in research studies.
She has guided and trained researchers through their statistical analysis for over 15 years as a statistical consultant at Cornell University and through The Analysis Factor. She has master’s degrees in both applied statistics and social psychology and is an expert in SPSS and SAS.
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May 21st, 2012 by Karen Grace-Martin
I am reviewing your notes from your workshop on assumptions. You have made it very clear how to analyze normality for regressions, but I could not find how to determine normality for ANOVAs. Do I check for normality for each independent variable separately? Where do I get the residuals? What plots do I run? Thank you!
I received this great question this morning from a past participant in my Assumptions of Linear Models workshop.
It’s one of those quick questions without a quick answer. Or rather, without a quick and useful answer. The quick answer is:
Do it exactly the same way. All of it.
The longer, useful answer is this: (more…)