Statistics are not broken. The problem lies with how scientists use, interpret and report them. At the end of 2017, Nature asked five influential statisticians to recommend a key change that would improve science. Adjust for human cognition The first change was proposed by Jeff Leek of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and it is based on the
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As scientists, we have all received some level of training in statistics. A fundamental concept is that we are trying to make inferences about a specific population, but that we only have access to a sample of the people, dogs, amoebas, etc that belong to that population. By randomly sampling amoebas for example, we collect data and conduct statistical tests
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In programming, for loops are used to automate repetitive tasks, such as analysing similar datasets from different subjects. Sometimes, a dataset might be slightly different to another such that the data can be used but needs to be analysed differently in the loop. For example, data might have been accidentally sampled at a higher rate, or a nested trial needs
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NOTE: I encountered trouble loading Spike2 .srm files with the neo package. Therefore, I coded a python package called spike2py that works well and has been used to analyse data from several studies at this point. Please see this post and the linked documentation for more information. Marty Oct 22, 2021 Spike2 is a piece of software written by the
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