General Statistical Resources

This is a list of sites etc. that have some resources statistics in general or for multiple statistical programs or programming languages. For specific programs, see the program-specific wiki page.

General

Cross-validated: question and answer site for people interested in statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and data visualization.

Statistical Programming

UCLA ARC

Princeton dss

Mixed Models

Hierarchical Model Visualization

Mixed Model FAQ

Machine learning

Statistical Learning Glossary

‘Awesome list’ of freebies

Power Calculations

Effect Size Conventions Some notes on choices of small vs large effect sizes for use in power calculations.

Beyond Significance Testing Rex Kline’s text on issues with significance testing, how to do power calculations, and calculate effect size in a variety of settings.

Missing Data

When is complete case analysis unbiased?

Flexible Imputation of Missing Data (Book) - terrific text covering all aspects of multiple imputation.

Structural Equation Modeling

See the SEM section.

Suveys

How Big of a Problem is Analytic Error in Secondary Analyses of Survey Data? West et al. (2016)

Miscellaneous/Frequently Asked Questions

Oh no I got the wrong sign

Factor Analysis vs. Principal Component Analysis

Change scores vs. ANCOVA

Problems Caused by Categorizing Continuous Variables

How to Spot Visualization Lies

What are pseudo R-squareds? Describes how pseudo R-squareds come about, compares and contrasts the various versions, and describes their limitations.

How much lower should AIC be before I prefer that model?