Internet statistics resources suitable for psychology students doing research

Question

I am working on a new webpage for my part-time job as a methodological/statistical consultant for (psychology) students at my university. On this website I would like to place several links to online recourses for clients to consult themselves.

So I am looking for links to websites that offer a lot of statistical information. Preferably written in a way that is easy to comprehend. Most students use SPSS, but information on other programs is welcome too.

So far I have:

• www.crossvalidated.com
• www.statmethods.net

Answer 1

In general, encouraging research students to use Google and sites like Cross Validated to ask and answer their own questions is important.

Specific Sites

• Andy Field is famous for making statistics more palatable for psychology students. He provides many online resources generally with a focus on SPSS.
• UCLA Statistics Consulting has many useful resources.
• @chl has many good statistics resources with a psychology flavour, such as this one on psychometrics and R
• G. David Garson provides extensive notes on most techniques with a focus on SPSS generally suitable to a psychology research audience.
• David Kenny has lots of resources particularly on SEM, mediation, moderation, and dyadic data analysis.
• Encyclopedia - Psychology and Statistics has an extensive set of links to resources
• mathpsych on Reddit is a small but interesting Reddit community.

A little self-promotion

One of my main aims over the last few years has been to develop resources designed to assist psychology students perform the data analysis for their research. Thus, I hope you'll forgive the self-promotion. The following links may be relevant:

• Sitemap of the blog. Most of the blog is devoted to saying what I find myself saying to psychology research students in consultation settings. Thus, there's a fair bit of SPSS content in addition to my own preference for R.
• Advice on completing data analysis for a thesis in psychology
• General teaching resources with an SPSS manual and some multivariate course notes
• General thoughts on encouraging students to use sites like Cross Validated

R in Psychology

I also have a post on getting started with R.

The following quotes the section of that post listing specific resources for researchers in psychology.

• Task Views particularly relevant to psychology
  • Psychometric Models and Methods
  • Social Sciences
  • Multivariate
• R Notes for Experimental Psychology
• William Revelle's Psychology R Site ;also see the package ;pscyh, ;and the ;online book and workshop resources
• Jonathan Baron and Yelin Li's R for Psychology Experiments
• Drew Conway suggests a list of must have R packages for the social scientsist
• SEM in R
• Mailing list for Psychology and R
• Edinburgh Psychology R-users
• Jason Locklin's notes on standard experimental analyses in psychology
• My posts with the R tag

Answer 2

Copy N' Paste from my Google Reader: http://jeromyanglim.blogspot.com/

Answer 3

• There's a correct answer here! http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/statnote.htm
• Also good:
  • http://statcomp.ats.ucla.edu/
  • http://dss.princeton.edu/online_help/
  • http://www.psych.cornell.edu/darlington/

I know you didn't ask, probably because you know, the answer, but absolutely best statistics tests (for multivariate analysis) for psychologists (& for most other social scientists, although they don't all realize it) are:

• Cohen, J., Cohen, P., West, S.G. & Aiken, L.S. Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, (L. Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, N.J., 2003).
• Judd, C.M., McClelland, G.H. & Ryan, C.S. Data analysis : a model comparison approach, (Routledge/Taylor and Francis, New York, NY, 2008).

Answer 4

The UCLA server has a lot of ressources for statistical computing, including annotated output from various statistical packages.