Advanced Statistics

Bons slides e outros materiais sobre clusters, AFE, SEM, reg logistica, meta-análise, MANOVA, Reliability

Bons slides e outros materiais sobre clusters, AFE, SEM, reg logistica, meta-análise, MANOVA, Reliability

Welcome to Malbowges, the part of Nether Hell dominated by thieves, counsellors of Fraud (or should that just be counsellors), falsifiers and sowers of discord. It’s not a nice place for Sunday lunch. You must wade through rivers of Lucifer’s sputum to reach the answers you seek, and when you find those answers, you’ll probably wish you hadn’t bothered. Revenge is mine, ah ha ha, yah ha ha, ya ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha …

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Introductory Statistics

Muito boas aulas e slides sobre testes não paramétricos e SPSS

Muito boas aulas e slides sobre testes não paramétricos e SPSS

Welcome to Limbo, where the lustful, gluttonous and wrathful wander in endless torment. Here you can uncover the searing agony of SPSS, the stomach churning fear of central tendency and the rancid bile of z-scores. Good luck, you’ll need it.

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Intermediate Statistics

Muito boas aulas e slides sobre ANOVA, ANCOVA e regressão

Muito boas aulas e slides sobre ANOVA, ANCOVA e regressão

Welcome to the wood of suicides (is anyone getting all these Dante references or am I just wasting my time here?), where self flagellation is the name of the game. You will experience the bowel-evacuating effect of multiple regression, the bone-splintering power of ANOVA and the nose-hair pulling torment of factor analysis. Can you cope: I think not, mortal filth. Be warned, your brain will be placed in a jar of cerebral fluid and I will toy with it at my leisure.

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PANDA – Practical Analysis of Nutritional Data

Bom livro sobre análise de dados e testes estatísticos

Bom livro sobre análise de dados e testes estatísticos


Chapter 1 –
USING NUTRITIONAL DATA
Chapter 2 –
DATA CLEANING

Chapter 3 –
ONE-WAY ANALYSIS

Chapter 4 –
TWO-WAY ANALYSIS

Chapter 5 –
MULTI-WAY ANALYSIS

Chapter 6 –
SUBMODULES

Chapter 7 – ASSESS YOUR UNDERSTANDING
Chapter 8
KENYA REAL WORLD ANALYSIS

Building and presenting a situation analysis
Child Feeding Practices

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Determining the Number of Components and Factors Using Parallel Analysis and Velicer’s MAP Test

Softwere para análise do nº de componentes em ACP e AF

Softwere para análise do nº de componentes em ACP e AF

Popular statistical software packages do not have the proper procedures for determining the number of components or factors in correlation matrices. Parallel analysis and Velicer’s minimum average partial (MAP) test are validated procedures that are widely recommended by statisticians. This paper described brief and efficient programs for conducting parallel analyses and the MAP test using SPSS, SAS, and MATLAB.

Métodos para facilitar a interpretação da AFE

Métodos para facilitar a interpretação da AFE

Scale development using popular statistical software packages often produces results that are baffling or misunderstood by many users, which can lead to inappropriate substantive interpretations and item selection decisions. High internal consistencies do not indicate unidimensionality; item-total correlations are inflated because each item is correlated with its own error as well as the common variance among items; and the default number-of-eigenvalues-greater-than-one rule, followed by principal components analysis and varimax rotation, produces inflated loadings and the possible appearance of numerous uncorrelated factors for items that measure the same construct (Gorsuch, 1997a, 1997b). Concerned investigators may then neglect the higher order general factor in their data as they use misleading statistical output to trim items and fashion unidimensional scales.

These problems can be circumvented in exploratory factor analysis by using more appropriate factor analytic procedures and by using extension analysis as the basis for adding items to scales. Extension analysis provides correlations between nonfactored items and the factors that exist in a set of core items. The extension item correlations are then used to decide which factor, if any, a prospective item belongs to. The decisions are unbiased because factors are defined without being influenced by the extension items. One can also examine correlations between extension items and any higher order factor(s) in the core items. The end result is a comprehensive, undisturbed, and informative picture of the correlational structure that exists in a set of core items and of the potential contribution and location of additional items to the structure.

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SPSS Programs for Analyzing Lag-Sequential Categorical Data

Programas em SPSS e SAS para análise de séries categóricas

Programas em SPSS e SAS para análise de séries categóricas

This paper describes simple and flexible programs for conducting lag sequential event analyses using SAS and SPSS.  The programs read a stream of codes and produce a variety of lag sequential statistics, including transitional frequencies, expected transitional frequencies, transitional probabilities, z values, adjusted residuals, Yule’s Q values, likelihood ratio tests of stationarity across time and homogeneity across groups or segments, transformed kappas for unidirectional dependence, bidirectional dependence, parallel and nonparallel dominance, and significance levels based on both parametric and randomization tests.

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Correspondence Analysis

Bom texto sobre análise de correspondências

Bom texto sobre análise de correspondências

1. Introduction
2. Overview of the Method

3. The Analysis I

4. The Analysis II

5. What you Find in the Output and How to Use it

6. Graphical Representations and Interpretation

7. Extensions and Limitations

8. Bibliography

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Logistic regression and discriminant analysis

Bom texto sobre regressão logística e análise descriminante com SPSS

Bom texto sobre regressão logística e análise discriminante com SPSS

Contents of this handout: The problem of dichotomous dependent variables; Discriminant analysis; Logistic regression – theory; Logistic regression (and discriminant analysis) in practice; Interpreting and reporting logistic regression results; References and further reading; Examples.

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Analysis Of Categorical Dependent Variables

Nétodos para VD categóricas (modelos logísticos)

Nétodos para VD categóricas (modelos logísticos)

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Pitfalls of Data Analysis

Como evitar erros e viéses na análise de dados

Como evitar erros e viéses na análise de dados

There seems to be a pervasive notion that “you can prove anything with statistics.” This is only true if you use them improperly. In this workshop we’ll discuss things that people often overlook in their data analysis, and ways people sometimes “bend the rules” of statistics to support their viewpoint. We will also discuss ways you can make sure your own statistics are clear and accurate. I will include examples from medicine, education, and industry.

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