April 19, 2009
Moses extreme reactions:
Some statistical tests with wonderful names. From SPSS, one of the standard data analysis software packages used by psychologists.
Kendall's W
Cochran's Q
LSD post-hoc
Two-step cluster
Fisher's exact test
Wald-Wolfowitz runs
Moses extreme reactions
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who has added to our list of wonderfully named statistical tests used by psychologists. Grabbed from the comments, they include:
Tukey's Honest Significant Difference
Smoothed Bootstrap
Jackknife Variance
Roy's Largest Root
—Vaughan.
Posted at April 19, 2009 12:00 PM
I no longer use SPSS, I'm quite happy with R http://www.r-project.org
How about "smoothed bootstrap" and "jackknife variance"?
Comment posted at April 19, 2009 10:56 PM
How about Tukey's Honest Significant Difference?
Comment posted at April 20, 2009 07:13 AM
Don't forget Roy's Largest Root.
Comment posted at April 20, 2009 10:00 AM
Greenhouse-Geisser epsilon correction (when appropiate! in ANOVA´s)
Comment posted at April 20, 2009 03:46 PM
Excellent stuff. "Fisher's exact test" sounds like a magic spell from Dungeons & Dragons.
Comment posted at April 20, 2009 04:57 PM
Many students think that the kolmogorov-smirnov is something you drink.
Comment posted at April 21, 2009 01:51 PM
There's also one of my favorites: Cronbach's alpha
Comment posted at April 23, 2009 03:48 PM
