Methods in Empirical Music Research
DAY 3 PROGRAM
- Introduction to Statistics
- Measurement; Why measure? How to measure anything
- Fermi Questions
- Descriptive Statistics
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Measures of Variability; Standard deviation
- Group Task #15: Descriptive Statistics
- Inferential Statistics
- Probability, the null hypothesis
- Confidence and significance levels, Statistical tests
- Confidence level and Confidence Interval
- Calculating confidence interval from confidence level
- Statistical Significance
- Chi-square test
- Table of critical values for chi-square
- Group Task #16: Chi-square tests
- Group Task #17: Funeral marches in F minor: Hypothesis
- Correlation demonstration
- Spurious correlations
- Interpreting p; “Highly” and “marginally” significant
- Multiple Tests and Related Topics: Bonferroni Correction; File Drawer Effect
- Positive results bias. The case of Ego Depletion (video - 9 minutes)
- Concept of “research registry”
- Reporting Statistical Results
- Statistical tests - General remarks
- Make friends with a statistician.
- Some Advanced Analytic Techniques
- Some advanced statistics (Introduction) Multiple Regression
- Cluster analysis
- Factor analysis (and PCA) Multi-dimensional scaling (MDS)
- Foote Novelty Modeling
- Homework review: Review questions and answers for Perttu (2007)
- Review (first 23) slogans
- Feedback Day 3
- Homework
- Reading Guide #3: Shanahan & Huron (2014)
- Reading #3: Shanahan & Huron (2014)