Useful Links

Writing tips

Guide to scientific writing
Please banish verbal false limbs and pretentious diction.
Great guide to scientific writing, from Andy Field
The Thesis Whisperer (great blog for grads)
Strunk and White never goes out of style.
Tips for Writing up a Thesis (this is geared to PhD students, but the principles apply to any thesis)
The Writer's Diet Test to determine if your writing is "flabby or fit"

How to review a paper, tips on being a good reviewer, more tips here.

Sound Processing

The basics of music acoustics
FAQ on music acoustics
Audacity (free sound editing software)
MatLab scripts for reading and writing MIDI files (useful for someone who wants to generate stimuli in MIDI format)
MatLab script for processing WAV files audioread (older versions would have used wavread)

Excel tips

How to create a pivot table in Excel 2003/2010 (video)
What are and how to use formulas in Excel (video)
Using basic formulas to create averages, sums, or counts of data (video)

Mr Excel.com: excellent resource--tips, tutorials, or search the forum/ask a ?
Excel tips page: use the search or just browse by category
Excel macro collections and tips for beginners
How to do a one-sample t-test in Excel
PivotPower add-in (free version available) Helpful Pivot Table commands!
AET Chart Tools Add in
Free online Excel training that adapts to your skill level.

E-Prime help

E-Prime Getting Started Guide
E-Prime User's Guide
E-Prime 2.0 Reference Guide Manual
Another E-prime introductory tutorial

E-Prime data export video
Merging data from many subjects into one file, ready for export to Excel
Edat2 output file filtering and column arranging example

E-Prime timing modes and pre-release
E-prime Knowledge Base (problems): triggering external hardware

PSTNET has a great youtube channel with many webinar videos:
E-Prime video introduction
E-Prime 2.0 Basic Webinar
E-Prime How To: Task Events
E-Prime How To: Nested Lists
Slide State Creation
Experiment Advisor
Advanced Attributes
Startup Info and Devices

Computer programming

Intro to Python course. Python is a useful, flexible language
Structure of computer programs course
Amazing list of psychology and computing links (useful software/tools, etc)

Statistics

CBU Stats wiki: FAQ
JASP--the 'low-fat', FREE, alternative to SPSS. Highly recommended.

SPSS
Video walk-throughs of SPSS procedures (from plots to ANOVA)
SPSS: How to conduct a repeated measures ANOVA
SPSS: How to conduct a repeated measures ANCOVA
Post-hoc tests in repeated-measures, from Howell
Why are you using SPSS anyway? Try R. It's free.

Misc
What is 'power'? What is meant by 'observed power'?
Fabulous and clear article on error bars. Required reading.
CircStats Toolbox - for MatLab, for Python

Correlations and covariates
Why mean-center covariates?
How to graph a partial correlation (e.g., adjusted for covariates)
Comparing correlation coefficients, slopes, intercepts
Compare nonoverlapping but correlated correlation coefficients

d' and signal detection theory
Presentation on d' analysis and the formulas required
Clear article describing d', B, c, and how to understand them
Wikipedia entry on Sensitivity and Specificity: d' captures both

Multi-level model info
CBU stats wiki: multi-level models
Examples of multi-level model fitting in SPSS
Multilevel Models and ANOVAs in SPSS

Handy (free) software/scripts

_CopyFilenames (Windows) adds "copy filenames" to right click: handy for importing file lists into E-prime or excel)
Evernote is great for organizing information--some use it as a lab notebook.
FileMenuTools (Windows) Customize right-click menu (greater functionality than CopyFilenames)
Mendeley (organize pdfs and references)
Dropbox (folder share)
NX No Machine (VNC client software)
Write MIDI files from text
Save videos from Youtube for talks

Ethics related information

Human Research Ethics - at Western
WesternREM Ethics online submission platform
Psychology research participation pool

Tip for Accessing Papers off Campus

**Applicable to Western students only**
Access papers off campus by simply adding proxy1.lib.uwo.ca behind the .com. This will then ask you to enter your UWO id & password.