Archive for November, 2007

07-11-28

Tags:Computing Research EndNote Web 2.0

 
EndNote Web delivers tools to:
- Search online resources
- Save ISI Web of KnowledgeSM records directly to an online library
- Collect and organize references
- Format citations and footnotes or a bibliography
 
Did you know, when you register for EndNote Web
you can take advantage of any of these features:

Use Cite While Your Write™ in […]

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07-11-28

Tags:Education Teaching
PIRLS 2006

PIRLS 2006 International Report: IEA’s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study in Primary School in 40 CountriesNovember 2007. Ina V.S. Mullis, Michael O. Martin, Ann M. Kennedy, and Pierre […]

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07-11-28

Tags:Linguistics Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon
 
Its $400 price tag, its zany user interface, and some of its sillier restrictions make the Kindle a non-starter for all but the travelingest, readingest early adopters.

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07-11-28

Tags:Computing Psych 290: Introduction to Unix
grep, sed, and awk

grep, sed, and awk are extraordinarily useful text processing tools. In general, I find it useful to think about Unix programming as a little bit like demonology. There is an element of ritual, a focus on knowing the names of strange beasts that […]

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07-11-14

Tags:Education English reading Teaching UK beat the US in admitting failure of reading reform … that would have been a catchy news article title. The truth is, neither government will admit anything. Billions of pounds or dollars were spent and little is gained. That’s all.  
Ten years of bold education boasts now look […]

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07-11-09

Tags:Research This is interesting.  
NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention
Affective Norms for English Text (ANET)
The Affective Norms for English Text (ANET) provides normative ratings of emotion (pleasure, arousal, dominance) for a large set of brief texts in the English language for use in experimental investigations of emotion and attention. The […]

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07-11-08

Tags:eye movement statistics Honestly, I am getting tired of the spinning naked woman on my blog. So I figured I’d just keep posting, and eventually it would be pushed out of the front page.
Here goes…
… my first visual illusion. Is that the bell-cueved Gaussian distribution or is it tilted?

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07-11-04

Tags:distribution Research statistics  

1.3.6.6. Gallery of Distributions
I don’t remember if I blogged about this before, but NIST put together a number of useful distributions together, along with PDF, CDF, Hazard functions, plus more. The Johnson, Kotz, and Balakrishnan (1994) is a definite reference, but most chapters do not include hazard functions.

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07-11-04

Tags:matlab modeling Paperville Research rt statistics  
TRISHA VAN ZANDT - Ohio State University has a number of Matlab scripts to model response time distributions, including exgaussian and other distributions. Looks like it requires the Statistics Toolbox.
Related publications:
Van Zandt, T.(2000). How to fit a response time distribution. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, […]

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07-11-02

Tags:Computing Research Snob is the grandfather of MML software. I was looking for tools for Gamma mixture modeling and was lead to Snob by Yudi Agusta and David Dowe’s (2003) work on Gamma distribution mixtures. From David Dowe’s Snob page:
Snob uses the Minimum Message Length (MML) principle to do mixture modelling to infer MML finite […]

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