Convergence: Connecting Levels of Analysis in Psychological Science
In the past, our field harbored distinct, and often competing, schools of thought that tackled different problems and produced findings that often appeared to diverge. Today, investigators attack shared problems at complementary levels of analysis and produce results that converge. Studies of people in a social world; mental systems of cognition and emotion; and biological mechanisms of the genome and the nervous system interconnect and yield an integrated psychological science. The APS 23rd Annual Convention displays, and celebrates, these advances in our field.

APS-SMEP Methodological Workshop Series

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis

Thursday, May 24, 2012, 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Sheraton Ballroom I

Chair: John K. Kruschke
Indiana University, Bloomington

This workshop shows you how to do Bayesian data analysis with free software called R and JAGS. Bayesian analysis provides complete distributional information about parameter values and avoids problems in null-hypothesis significance testing. The intended audience is graduate students, faculty, and other researchers who want a ground-floor introduction to Bayesian data analysis. No mathematical expertise is presumed. More information is at the workshop's web page.

This workshop is cosponsored by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP). Separate registration is required for workshops, which are open to Convention and/or Teaching Institute registrants only.

Subject Area: Methodology