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Who is I?
 I am a graduate student at the University of Texas at Dallas in the school of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I am (still) working on my PhD in cognitive  psychology in the Memory Lab under the enlightened supervision of my advisor: Dr Hervé Abdi. My interests are face and object recognition, brain imaging in this context and statistics. I intend these pages to be a "HQ" for me and hope that they may help others. If nothing more than a SAS manual can plunge you into the deepest despair, then go here (even if it is now quite tremendously empty). You are not alone.

Teaching
This course will allow the student to become acquainted with the basics of descriptive and inferential statistics in the context of the behavioral sciences. If you are a student of ACN/HCS 6312 and you are coming here for the first time, go here and create your account on the class web site.
This class aims to provide the students of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences with enough autonomy in Matlab that they can work on specific aspects of their research using Matlab. If you are a student of HCS 7372 go here and create your account.

As an experimental feature, we will use a Moodle site for the class. This is a way to manage a class and ease contact as well as information diffusion (via forum or list Emails) between the members of a class. If you are a student of RMS1-6312 go there and create your account.

Research

Coming soon...

Statistics
Here, possibly usefull information about some statistical procedures in an almost imminent future. Eventually. At some point.

For now, you can always go visit the SAS tutorial and examples provided by UCLA. It is an excellent SAS ressource with a nice search engine. This site also offer information about other statistical packages such as SPSS, Stata, R, etc...

Software

  • Commercial:

-SAS: Statistical package, standard in the industry and research. Good, but pricey. Online Documentation for SAS v8 is here. Java must be enabled in your navigator. And online Documentation for SAS v9 is there.

-Matlab: some online documentation here.

  • Open source:

-Octave: A matlab clone. Find more at www.octave.org

-Scilab: Another Matlab clone. Find more at www.scilab.fr

-R: a statistical package, but free. Find more at www.r-project.org

-And also, a Linux distribution: Mandriva, an office suite: OpenOffice; a graphical interface for LaTeX: Lyx; a graphic editing software: The Gimp; and a picture viewing, converter, thumbnails making, html galleries generating, beer can opening little application called: Gthumb...

Links

-The Memory Lab: here.
-The homepage of Gail Tillman at UTD: here.
-The homepage of Joseph Dunlop at UTD: here.
-The Functional Brain Imaging Working Group: here.



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Email: npenard@utdallas.edu