How to make #neuromusic
Posted on 16 January 2019 in Tutorials
PCA on neural data
Posted on 05 July 2018 in Tutorials
PCA: from newbie to ninja
Posted on 05 July 2018 in Tutorials
The Slurm Cookbook
Posted on 10 June 2018 in tutorials
A short overview of Slurm for beginners, focused on how you can interact with it to obtain information about jobs and resources.
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A note on robust statistical methods
Posted on 23 October 2017 in Pietro's Data Bulletin
TL;DR: Conventional statistical methods like the t-test or the ANOVA F test can perform very poorly if the data does not meet the assumptions of normality and homoscedasticity. So-called robust statistical methods have been developed which perform well even when these assumptions are violated (and we should use them).
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Show me your code and I’ll tell you who you are
Posted on 05 October 2017 in Pietro's Data Bulletin
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Posted on 26 September 2017 in Pietro's Data Bulletin
TL;DR: Low statistical power, stemming from small sample sizes, is a serious concern for the reliability of results in neuroscience. But not all hope is lost.
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Is the difference between significant and not significant... significant?
Posted on 15 September 2017 in Pietro's Data Bulletin
Admittely, the question in the title might seem convoluted and perhaps even nonsensical at first, yet it exposes an important misconception in statistical analysis, which often goes unnoticed.
Suppose you are interested in showing that a certain experimental effect is larger in a certain group or under certain conditions. You …
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(Effect) size matters
Posted on 04 September 2017 in Pietro's Data Bulletin
TL;DR: Looking at statistical significance alone can be misleading. There are a lot of good reasons to make use, on a regular basis, of measures of effect size together with their confidence intervals, as opposed to only looking at p-values.
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When less (dimensions) is more
Posted on 05 July 2017 in Pietro's Data Bulletin
TL;DR: Dimensionality reduction methods are an interesting tool to visualize, interrogate, and summarize your high-dimensional neural data.
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