Phillip M. Alday
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As part of the migration to quarto, the blog has moved to a URL structure. The old URLs should still work, but will be static renders of the old HTML and not reflect the new design.

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  • SMLP
  • Online materials and one-offs
    • 2024
    • 2022
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
  • University Experience
    • International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences
    • University of Salzburg
    • University of Marburg
    • University of Mainz
    • Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts

SMLP

For the past several years, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching (with Reinhold Kliegl and Douglas Bates) the Advanced Frequentist Track at the Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Potsdam. This course has also served a testing ground for innovations both in MixedModels.jl and in the broader Julia package ecosystem. In other words: the older materials are most assuredly out of date, both in terms of practices and software capabilities and compatibility.

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020

Online materials and one-offs

These were often written for an “informercial”, either as part of a regular meeting series or to explain something that I had received a lot of questions about. As a rule, they have not been updated – not for changes in the software landscape nor to fix mistakes of various sorts nor to indicate where my own thoughts on a topic have changed. The sorting into years thus serves as a bit of a warning about how stale the contents within may be.

2024

  • An introduction to the MixedModels.jl ecosystem in Julia
    presented to the economics department of the European Commission.

2022

  • Using Simulation to Understand Mixed Models in the Wild.
    for FIAS Statistics Workshop “Modelling Diversity in Language and Cognition”.
  • Mixed effects models
    for block seminar of linguists at LMU Munich.

2018

  • Explicit GLM(M) Equivalents for Standard Tests
  • “Advanced” (Mixed) Models Gallery

2017

  • Bayes isn’t magic
  • The perils of power (analysis)
  • Pragmatic Python

2016

  • Linear Mixed-Effects Models
  • Unmixed Models (Regression Review)
  • Regression review
  • Interactions in Mixed Effects Models with lme4

University Experience

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences

  • Bayesian Estimation and Regression. 2020.
    with Natalia Levshina.
  • Automate the boring stuff. 2019.

University of Salzburg

  • Mixed-Effects Models. Summer 2016

University of Marburg

  • Statistik für Sprachwissenschaftler.Summer 2014.
  • Python für Linguisten.Source code Winter 2013–14.
  • Kognitive Modellierung in der Psycho- & Neurolinguistik/ Summer 2013.
  • Themen zur Morphologie. Winter 2012-13.
  • Quantitative Methoden in der Sprachwissenschaft. Summer 2012/
  • Einführung in die Linguistik des Deutschen I. Winter 2011–12. with Jona Sassenhagen.
  • Elektrophysiologie der Sprache. Winter 2011-12. with Jona Sassenhagen.
  • Empirische und mathematische Methoden in der Sprachwissenschaft. Summer 2011 with Jona Sassenhagen.

University of Mainz

  • Advanced Statistical Methods. Fall 2014.
  • Forschungsseminar und Experimentalpraktikum I. Winter 2013–14.
  • BA Seminar. Winter 2012–13.
  • Einführung in die Morphologie und Syntax. Winter 2012–13.

Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts

  • Latin I (Summer School 2004–2008, Teaching Assistant for Dr. E. Hall)
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