Resources
Below is a collection of resources, compiled by members of the SCoP and other colleagues, to support the use of statistics in research across the University. You can search for key terms using the ‘Search’ box below which will filter the table for all resources that contain your searched term.
| Title/Reference | Resource Type | Subject Specific | Description | School/Discipline | Contributor | Access Links | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PsyTeachR - Reproducible Research Statistics Textbook | Website | No | Put together by the University of Glasgow (psychology dept), it's a sort of online text book for statistics using R, with exercises to work through, to support courses at all levels of Undergraduate Psychology (so beginner to quite advanced), as well as some other more specific modules. | Institute of Education | Daisy Powell | psyteachr.github.io | General Statistics |
| The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data - David Spiegelhalter | Book or Book Chapter | No | Great introduction to statistics, with an emphasis on conceptual understanding rather than the mechanics of statistical testing. Accessible to all, regardless of prior knowledge, but promotes responsible use of statistics and avoiding over-reliance on significance testing. | Institute of Education | Daisy Powell | Reading Library catalogue | General Statistics |
| Halsey, L. G., Curran-Everett, D., Vowler, S. L., & Drummond, G. B. (2015). The fickle P value generates irreproducible results. Nature Methods, 12(3), 179-185. | Journal Article | No | Institute of Education | Daisy Powell | doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3288 | General Statistics | |
| PsyTeachR SIPS 2019 Workshop - Reproducible Methods Teaching Resources | Website | Yes | Also from the University of Glasgow team, very useful resource for those teaching research methods to undergraduate/postgraduate students, including those with no background in stats/coding. Provides resources from a workshop on adapting teaching to reproducible methods using R software. | Institute of Education | Daisy Powell | psyteachr.github.io/sips2019 | General Statistics |
| Cross-validation FAQ | Website | No | It provides a complete guide for all issues regarding cross-validation in statistics. | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | users.aalto.fi | General Statistics |
| Prior Choice Recommendations (Stan Wiki) | Website | No | It provides a comprehensive overview for how to choose priors for Bayesian models. | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | GitHub — Stan wiki | R Programming |
| Bayesian Data Analysis - Gelman, Carlin, Stern, Dunson, Vehtari & Rubin | Book or Book Chapter | No | It serves as a handbook of Bayesian methods in applied statistics for general users of and researchers in applied statistics. It also has a publicly available free online version shared by the authors for non-commercial use: https://users.aalto.fi/~ave/BDA3.pdf | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | Routledge | General Statistics |
| Regression and Other Stories - Gelman, Hill & Vehtari | Book or Book Chapter | No | Unlike other books, this book interestingly focuses on practical issues such as sample size and missing data and a wide range of goals and techniques. | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | Cambridge University Press | R Programming, Regression Analysis |
| Bayesian Data Analysis Course (Aalto University) | Training Course | No | Free online course to support the book "Bayesian Data Analysis". | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | avehtari.github.io | Bayesian Statistics |
| R Documentation (DataCamp) | Website | No | A site hosting all R programming-related knowledge. | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | DataCamp | R Programming |
| Shravan Vasishth's Statistics Course Website | Website | No | Free courses provided by Professor Shravan Vasishth for understanding both frequentist and Bayesian statistics. | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | vasishth.github.io | Statistics |
| Coding Club Tutorials | Website | No | A coding club for different statistical coding programmes | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | ourcodingclub.github.io | General Statistics |
| Statistical Tools for High-Throughput Data Analysis (STHDA) | Website | No | A resource bank offered by Statistical tools for high-throughput data analysis | Institute of Education | Pengchong Anthony Zhang | sthda.com | R Programming |
| Coding Club (including R) and Advanced Analytical Pipelines | Training Course | Yes | Example of grassroot events that other Schools could organise. | School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences | Etienne Roesch | MS Teams | General Statistics |
| Bayesian Methods Community of Practice | Training Course | No | Advanced "community of practice" on Bayesian methods. | School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences | Etienne Roesch | General Statistics | |
| Lectures on Statistics and the History of the Scientific Method | Training Course | Yes | It provides both the philosophical background and the stats basics for interpreting results using a frequentist approach. | School of Chemistry, Food, and Pharmacy | Francesco Tamagnini | Statistics | |
| Foundations and Advanced Topics of PLS-SEM using SmartPLS 4 | Training Course | No | These are two courses for PLS-SEM users given by the three creators of SmartPLS software and top statisticians in the field. While the courses are well-structured and detailed, all the instructors also offer online clinic support, which is very useful for those who are users and have specific data questions. | Henley Business School | Anastasiya Saraeva | Link dead replacement needed | General Statistics |
| SPSS Survival Manual (Julie Pallant) & Discovering Statistics (Andy Field) | Book or Book Chapter | No | I have recommended Julie Pallant's book to a range of students, even to students with limited knowledge and experience, to use when running statistics for their dissertations/theses. They have all found it very useful. Of course, I provide them with extra help and support to be able to understand the book. Andy Field's book is also very useful, but it often requires the student to have some basic knowledge of the statistics. Youtube is also very useful to help students become independent. Dr Vahid Aryadoust's videos are useful. | School of Humanities (English Language and Linguistics) | Parvaneh Tavakoli | SAGE | SPSS, Statistics |
| Stats and R Blog | Website | No | Useful blog about statistics using R. Covers general stats topics (e.g. decision tree for deciding which statistical test to use) plus articles on specific tests and models, including code and examples of visualisation techniques. | Institute of Education | Daisy Powell | statsandr.com | R Programming |
| UoR Library LibGuide: Statistics Support Resources | Website | No | Comprehensive bank of resources to support basic statistics, with links to books and also training available to UoR students and staff, including LinkedIn learning videos and training available via Integral for HE. | Institute of Education | Daisy Powell | libguides.reading.ac.uk | R Programming, Statistics |
| List of R Resources | Resource List | No | Comprehensive list of R resources, including online text books and other training resources, code cheat sheets etc | Institute of Education | Daisy Powell | Link needed — current one goes to a form | General Statistics |
| Online Training Resources for Stats Beginners (University of Southampton) | Training Course | No | Short recorded sessions describing core concepts, approaches and statistical tests. Also provides quizzes to go along with taught material. Designed for medicine/health sciences but useful beyond this. | School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development | Daisy Powell | med.soton.ac.uk | R Programming |
| Kelvin's Stats Tools Webpage | Website | No | Fun activities/games/quizzes to support stats learning | School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development | Daisy Powell | sites.google.com | General Statistics |
| JASP | Software | No | User-friendly interface, using R for statistical analysis but removing need for coding skills. It's open source and free. Can be used for both conventional statistical tests (ANOVA, regression) and also supports Bayesian methods. | School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development | Daisy Powell | jasp-stats.org | General Statistics |