Useful links
Recommended blogs
- One of our favorite blogs: Andrew Gelman鈥檚 .
- A close contender is Uli Schimmack鈥檚 , which features first-rate methodology pieces, numerous replicability 鈥渁udits鈥 of eminent psychologists, psychology departments, and psychology journals. It鈥檚 a fantastic resource. Uli, we warn you, is a warrior and he does not suffer fools gladly (as is on daily display in 鈥渉is鈥 ) which has doubled its membership year by year, has currently 26 thousand group members, and each day at least half a dozen substantial threads. You are not part of the ongoing replicability conversation if you do not follow this page.
- Another of our favorite blogs: Daniel Lakens鈥檚 .
- Yet another favourite blog: 产测听,听, and聽聽who wrote .
- Also (but somewhat more demanding): .
- Often worth a read is Simine Vazire鈥檚 听产濒辞驳.
- is excellent blog on evidence and uncertainties about life and medicine.
- is聽聽a website about Behavioral Economics, Data Science, Statistics, Marketing, Management, Psychology, Computer Science, Medicine, Policy, & Law.
- 聽Brembs has important things to say about open science, Sci-Hub, effective civil disobedience against Elsevier and similar robber barons, what a modern scientific infrastructure should look like, and where you find the least reliable science (confidential to all: it鈥檚 the top journals). Oh, and聽he also reflects on booming university administrations. As, incidentally, has Julie Schumacher in her recent academic novel, . Recommended.
- . Good aggregator of replicability news from economics.
Must read (and bookmark)
- 聽All retractions in one place, continuously updated.
- 聽A scholarly commons to connect the entire research cycle.
- The latest version of 鈥榮 annotated bibliography on decisions and uncertainty is available .
Reviews
- Here聽is our favourite
- Here聽is our favorite
BETA Directory of Australian Academics with a Particular BI or Policy Focus
In 2017, BETA published a directory of Australian academics with a particular BI or policy focus, catalogued both alphabetically and聽by policy area. It could have used a good editor, and would have benefitted from a template, but it鈥檚 a start that should satisfy the curious.
BETA Guide to Developing Behavioural Interventions for Randomised Controlled Trials
Phil Ames and Professor Michael Hiscox provide nine guiding questions for those that want to develop behavioural RTC interventions.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R
Offered online (free!) by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani.
Another Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R
Offered online (free!) by Dani Navarro.
And Yet Another Online R-resource
FR for Data Science by Grrett Grolemund & Hadley Wickham offered online (free!).
Wellbeing Science: In Search of the Good Life
Free eBook available聽online聽by Ulrich Schimmack.
Scott Cunningham鈥檚 Causal Inference: The Mixtape
Offered online (free!) by Scott Cunningham.聽Eminently readable, with topics such as regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, panel data, differences-in-differences, and聽synthetic control.
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
The Effect聽is a book intended to introduce students (and non-students) to the concepts of research design and causality in the context of observational data. The book is written in an intuitive and approachable way and doesn鈥檛 overload on technical detail.