Brushing up on stats before grad school?

[neuropsych76]

I took research methods & statistics sophomore year and did pretty well but now I feel like I have forgotten everything I learned. I know a few analyses from doing them over and over for my thesis but that's pretty much it.

I have to take stats my first semester and my research will be heavily quantitative in nature so I'd like to brush up on stats before I head off to grad school.

Anyone feel like they are in a similar position and/or could offer some nice (preferably free) options for studying up on psych statistics? I know I could scour through wikipedia ect. but it'd be nice to know if anyone had any specific recommendations.

Thank you!

[iopsych]

I took research methods & statistics sophomore year and did pretty well but now I feel like I have forgotten everything I learned. I know a few analyses from doing them over and over for my thesis but that's pretty much it.

I have to take stats my first semester and my research will be heavily quantitative in nature so I'd like to brush up on stats before I head off to grad school.

Anyone feel like they are in a similar position and/or could offer some nice (preferably free) options for studying up on psych statistics? I know I could scour through wikipedia ect. but it'd be nice to know if anyone had any specific recommendations.

Thank you!

here is a good resource for brushing up on SAS and SPSS

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/

This is also a really good applied book (and you can get it on library.nu)

http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Multivariate-Statistics-Social-Sciences/dp/0805859012/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301357593&sr=8-1

[Cuddlyhorse]

It certainly isn't free, especially since it more or less requires you have SPSS, but you won't find a better primer on statistics than Field's Discovering Statistics using SPSS. Field's writing is really intuitive and entertaining and I've never seen the topic discussed in such an approachable way. If you plan on using SPSS even moderately, or just want a really good review of really useful stats., there is no better investment than this book.

[Arcadian]

Dude, I've been thinking the same thing. I'm just going to do practice problems from my stats textbooks. Do you still have yours?

Since I won't have anything else to do this summer, I think I'll take some time to brush up on everything relevant: stats, writing research papers, basic neuroscience, cognitive theory, etc.

[neuropsych76]

Dude, I've been thinking the same thing. I'm just going to do practice problems from my stats textbooks. Do you still have yours?

Since I won't have anything else to do this summer, I think I'll take some time to brush up on everything relevant: stats, writing research papers, basic neuroscience, cognitive theory, etc.

Glad I'm not the only one

I do still have my old stats textbook. I remember the information wasn't presented very clearly in the book but I'll give it another shot.

I'm in the same boat for this summer. I'll be working a lame summer job and brushing up on relevant material for grad school. That's it. I keep hearing what a steep learning curve quantitative neuroimaging has (probably what i'm going into) so i know i'll have to review my stats and learn some more math/programming beforehand. Plus, I'd like to review some functional neuroanatomy.

It's exciting to prepare for the next stage though (in a nerdy kind of way )