Archive for June, 2005

05-06-29

Tags: I cited The Doug Bagley Computer Language Shootout in a recent paper on eye movement modeling. Commenting on the incommensurability problem the field is facing:
When everything else fails, this is how computer scientists (enthusiasts?) settle arguments over their favorite computer languages (Fulgham, 2005). But that misses the point of eye movement modeling.  […]

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05-06-25 Xu Bing: Living Word
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05-06-25

Tags: CiteULike: Jake’s library posted the following oldie paper, which complements a prevous post Teach yourself NHST in 15 weeks

Tests of Significance Considered as Evidence

Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 37, No. 219. (1942), pp. 325-335.

Authors

Berkson J

Online Article

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">Tests of Significance Considered as Evidence

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05-06-23

Tags:LD phonology reading Sounds pretty interesting — what kind of MR did they have? 
ScienceDirect - Research in Developmental Disabilities : Phonological reading skills acquisition by children with mental retardation

Phonological reading skills acquisition by children with mental retardation

Frances A. Conners, Celia J. Rosenquist, Allison […]

">Phonological reading skills acquisition by children with mental retardation

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05-06-23

Tags: A few interesting developments in the world of OpenSource citation/reference management: 
First, John Doe (john_doe@somewhere.com; whois) commented on one of my previous posts on this topic JabRef: Java GUI for managing BibTeX and other bibliographies

john doe Says: June 23rd, 2005 at 8:42 am e
Jabref does […]

">Citation management in the OpenSource world

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05-06-23

Tags: Greenhalgh published a series of 10 papers on BMJ in 1997 titled "How to read a paper". The readership is primarily physicians and health care professionals, as well as policy makers.
How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research) — Greenhalgh and Taylor 315 (7110): 740 — BMJ

In 1993, […]

">How to read a paper: Trisha Greenhalgh

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05-06-21 EMMIX: by McLachlan
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05-06-19

Tags: This 2001 article on MathWorks’ Matlab News and Notes by Cleve Moler explains in plain terms 3 algorithms to generate normal distributions.

Almost all algorithms for generating normally distributed random numbers are based on transformations of uniform distributions. The simplest way to generate an m-by-n matrix with approximately normally distributed elements […]

">The MathWorks - MATLAB News & Notes - Normal Behavior

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05-06-17

Tags: A reading list from R. Chris Fraley’s 2003 seminar on Null Hypothesis Significance Testing: Psychology 548, Seminar in Statistics and Measurement |The Statistical Significance Testing Debate: A Critical Analysis
Week 1 Introduction: What is a Null Hypothesis Significance Test? Facts, Myths, and the State of Our […]

">Teach yourself NHST in 15 weeks
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05-06-17 Reid Lyon’s new advanture: American College of Education
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05-06-16

Tags: An introductory paper on the insignificance of statistical significance testing brought Douglas Johnson the The Wildlife Society Award for Outstanding Publication in Wildlife Ecology and Management, in the Article Category, 13 September 2000, in Nashville, Tennessee.
President of The Wildlife Society, Nova Silvy (right), presents Doug Johnson (left) with the […]

">The Insignificance of Statistical Signigicance Testing
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05-06-15 On Power and Science
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05-06-13

Tags: The difference between "statistically significant" and "not statistically significant" is not in itself necessarily statistically significant, says Andrew Gelman. It’s a message we ought to drill in, hammer down, and drive home with in every intro stats course. But unfortunately psychology believes in the magic number .05 more than anything (or anybody) else.
It is […]

">A thin red line: the distance between statistical significance and insignificance
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05-06-13 abecedaria: Susan McCarthy’s blog on writing systems
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05-06-13 Blue Brain Project
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05-06-13 Geoffrey Sampson: from Proto-Indu-European to English spelling
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05-06-12

Tags:
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Finally, a search engine that’s really different. And the difference is obvious from your very first search. Compare us to Google!
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Factbites is a new approach to web searching - the results make […]

">Factbites

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05-06-12

Tags:
Marc van Oostendorp

 has several papers of interest:

Phonological alphabets and the structure of the segment Introduction (with Jeroen van de Weijer) to our volume The internal organization of phonological segments, April 2005.
The Theory of Faithfulness Tutorial on Containment, Correspondence, paradigmatic relations, Sympathy, and related notions. (April […]

">Marc van Oostendorp: OT, Faithfulness, and Schwas

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05-06-12

Tags: Two OT papers on Chinese dialects from a recent conference in Taiwan.
第九屆國際暨廿三屆全國聲韻學學術研討會
主辦單位:靜宜大學中文系、中華民國聲韻學會        […]

">Chinese OT papers
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">Base64 Encoded Images for Internet Explorer
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