Methods in Empirical Music Research


DAY 3 PROGRAM


  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Homework
    • Reading Guide #3: Shanahan & Huron (2014)
    • Reading #3: Shanahan & Huron (2014)