Teaching and Learning Zone: Statistics
Excellence in statistics education
On our methods modules, you’ll be taught statistics and psychological research methods within the framework of Open Science and reproducibility. We teach cutting edge topics rarely taught elsewhere (e.g., robust methods, and Bayesian methods) and we’re one of only a handful of institutions in the UK that teach the open source statistics packages and .
Learning Statistics
Our Psychological Methods teaching team, led by internationally known textbook author and educator Prof Andy Field, is at the cutting edge of research methods and statistics education. Here you can find details of Andy's introductory texts and additional tutorials to give some grounding in learning about statistics.
- Books
Field, A. P. (2022). SAGE Publications.
Field, A. P. (2017). SAGE Publications.
Field, A. P. (2012). SAGE Publications.
- Interactive Tutorials
Milan Valášek’s
Milan Valášek’s - Video Tutorials
Andy Field’s
- Talks
Andy Field on
Andy Field on
Learning Bayesian Statistics
Our team also includes Prof Zoltan Dienes, an internationally known expert in Bayesian statistics. Zoltan has written extensively about using Bayes factors, and you can read more about it on his or in his books and papers.
- Books
Dienes, Z. (2008). Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Papers
Dienes, Z. (2021). How to use and report Bayesian hypothesis tests. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practise, 8(1), 9–26.
Dienes, Z. (2021). Obtaining evidence for no effect. Collbra: Psychology, 7(1), Article 28202.
Dienes, Z. (2019). How do I know what my theory predicts? Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(4), 364–377.
Dienes, Z., & Mclatchie, N. (2018). Four reasons to prefer Bayesian analyses over significance testing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(1), 207–218.
Dienes, Z. (2014). Using Bayes to get the most out of non-significant results. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1–17.
Dienes, Z. (2011). Bayesian versus orthodox statistics: Which side are you on? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(3), 274–290. - Video Tutorials
Zoltan Dienes'
Zoltan Dienes' - Online Courses
Lincoln Colling’s
- Calculators
Zoltan Dienes has released an online for performing Bayesian analyses. It is also possible to perform these calculations with Lincoln Colling’s Bayesplay R package and and in .
Learning R
As well as running undergraduate and postgraduate taught modules in statistics, our team run workshops for researchers on Open Science, and , and statistical practice. Our major goal for 2019-2022 was to train the entire research community within the School of Psychology to be proficient in R and RStudio. In 2017, we reviewed the postgraduate curriculum so that all methods teaching used R, and the undergraduate curriculum underwent a similar review in 2018 with the new curriculum first rolled out in 2019.