This web page describes faculty activity by Gordon Brooks within the Educational Research and Evaluation (EDRE) program, which is in the Department of Educational Studies and the Patton College of Education at Ohio University. If you have difficulty accessing these materials for any reason, please email me at brooksg@ohio.edu
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Gordon
P Brooks, PhD, Professor, EDRE
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OHIO
UNIVERSITY
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The
Patton College of Education, Department of Educational Studies
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McCracken
Hall #302Q, 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701-2979
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Paper
presented: AERA_2023_Brooks_Adjanin_PAPER.pdf
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RMarkdown
file (requires RStudio to run): AERA_2023_Brooks_Adjanin_BRIEF.RMD
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An
example Output, Knitted R Markdown file: AERA_2023_Brooks_Adjanin_BRIEF.html
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The
RMD file should run (RUN ALL) without changes in RSTUDIO. If you have KNITR
installed in RSTUDIO, the RMD file should also KNIT without changes. You can
import your own data as well (see comments in the code).
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Most
current version of R Package: qqBarth
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It is
not necessary to download the R package… the code file accesses it directly
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(Click on the
program name to go to the Description and Download Link for the Program)
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TAP:
Test Analysis Program (last updated December
2018)
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FISH:
Friendly Introductory Statistics Help (last updated
January 2022)
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MC4G:
Monte Carlo Analyses for up to 4 Groups
(last updated 2018)
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MCMR:
Monte Carlo for Multiple Regression (last updated
2018)
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MCCM:
Monte Carlo Correlation Matrices (last updated
2018)
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MUD:
Messy Ugly Data Generator (last updated 2018)
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DGW:
Data Generator for Windows (last updated September 2018)
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MC2G:
Monte Carlo Analyses for 1 or 2 Groups (last updated
2018)
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MNDG:
Multivariate Normal Data Generator (last updated
2018)
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MC3G:
Monte Carlo Analyses for 3 Groups (last updated
2003)
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BMA:
Basic Matrix Algebra (for statistics) (last updated
2004)
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HMF:
Harmonic Mean Finder (last updated 2004)
Please note that some
Anti-Virus programs and sometimes Windows itself will recommend that you do not
download these programs or block you from downloading or running them. You can
usually bypass this block by clicking more information and then choosing to
download or run anyway. I use both Norton Anti-Virus and Kaspersky on different
computers I use to compile these programs. Neither program has ever complained
while I compile the programs. I have even had situations where Norton stopped
me from downloading one of my own programs that I just uploaded even though I
just compiled it on that same computer with Norton active… They just don't seem
to like relatively new programs that don't have many users.
· (All software is copyrighted, see User Agreement)
· Please note that all my software is constantly under development. I do my best to verify the code and the algorithms; but unfortunately, I can test the software only so much by myself (or even with help from a few colleagues and students). Please contact me if you find bugs or errors and I will do my best to fix them quickly. I also welcome any suggestions you might have to improve the programs (or even new programming ideas). Of course, this also means that if you find something you like, you should check back occasionally to see if there is a new upgrade available.
· Most of the documents available with the programs (e.g., user guides, instructor guides, lesson plans, student exercises) are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If you need the Adobe Reader, you can download it from their web site free.
BMA
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that performs
matrix manipulations. It is designed for use in advanced statistics
courses where a conceptual understanding of matrix algebra is desired without
much calculation by hand. It takes the user step-by-step through several
matrix algebra functions, including addition, multiplication, transposition,
and inversion. The current version will be presented at the 2003 meeting
of the Mid-Western Educational Research Association in Columbus, IL. BMA was most recently
presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Western Educational Research
Association, October 2003, Columbus, OH:
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Brooks, G. P., Raffle, H., Fang, H., & Heh,
V. (2003, October). Teaching statistics with the help of three new computer
programs. Workshop presented at the meeting of the Mid-Western Educational
Research Association, Columbus, OH.
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User's Guide by Hua Fang
DGW is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7
program written in Delphi Pascal that generates both Univariate and
Multivariate data. The program assists in the process by providing simple
choices for several research scenarios (e.g., 3-group analysis, regression
analysis). DGW was most
recently presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Western Educational
Research Association, October 2003, Columbus, OH.
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Brooks, G. P., Raffle, H., Fang, H., & Heh,
V. (2003, October). Teaching statistics with the help of three new computer
programs. Workshop presented at the meeting of the Mid-Western Educational
Research Association, Columbus, OH.
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Download DGW.EXE Most Recent Version
(September 2014)
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User's Guide by Victor Heh
FISH
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that performs
introductory descriptive and correlation analyses. It is intended to be
used as a supplement to introductory statistics courses. It is designed
for use in basic statistics courses where a conceptual understanding of statistics
is desired without much calculation by hand. It takes the user
step-by-step through the calculation of means, standard deviations, z-scores,
and correlations. Although some AUXILIARY MATERIALS may have been created for
use with a previous version of the program, they should still be very useful
with newer versions of the program; that is, changes to the program usually are
not dramatic enough to make earlier manuals obsolete. An article about FISH was
published in Teaching Statistics and FISH was most recently presented
at the annual meeting of the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2004, Toronto,
Canada.
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Brooks,
G. P., & RAFFLE, H. (2005). FISH: A new computer program for friendly
introductory statistics help. Teaching Statistics:
An International Journal for Teachers, 27, 81-88. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2005.00221.x
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Brooks,
G. P., RAFFLE, H., LEWIS,M., & BLOM, V. (2005). A
computer program for friendly introductory statistics help.
2004 Proceedings of the American
Statistical Association, Section on Statistical Education [CD-ROM].
Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. {Poster presented at the August, 2004, annual Joint Statistical Meeting, Toronto,
Canada}
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User's Guide by Holly Raffle
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Instructor's Guide by Holly
Raffle
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Sample Lesson 1 (univariate) by Marsha
Lewis & Valerie Blom
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Sample Lesson 2 (z scores) by
Marsha Lewis
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Sample Lesson 3 (correlation)
by Valerie Blom
HMF is a little
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that calculates the
Harmonic Mean in a variety of ways (particularly useful for Power and Sample
Size analyses). It will calculate (a) the harmonic mean, (b) the sample size needed
for group 2 for a given group 1 sample size and desired harmonic mean, (c)
several combinations of sample sizes that result in the given harmonic mean,
and (d) the harmonic mean for 3-6 groups.
MC2G
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that runs Monte
Carlo simulations for several single sample and two-sample tests:
Independent t, Dependent t, Single-sample t, Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon, Wilcoxon
Signed Rank, Pearson Correlation, Spearman Rank-Order Correlation. By providing
the total number of rejections at the user-specified level of significance,
MC2G performs robustness analyses when means are equal (or correlations are
zero) and power analyses when the means are not equal (or correlations are
non-zero). The original purpose of the program was to assist in the instruction
of power analysis and violations of assumptions for introductory educational
statistics courses. However, with a little effort the program can be used to
answer actual Monte Carlo research questions.
MC2G was most recently presented at the annual meeting of the
Mid-Western Educational Research Association, October 2003, Columbus, OH, and a
program announcement and example lesson plans for MC2G was published in 2003 in
Understanding Statistics.
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Brooks,
G. P., Abdulla, A., Al-Harbi, K., Kanyongo, G., Kyei-Blankson, L., &
Gocmen, G. (2002, April). Teaching introductory statistics with the help of
Monte Carlo methods. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational
Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
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Brooks,
G. P. (2003). Using Monte Carlo methods to teach statistics: The MC2G computer
program. Understanding Statistics, 2, 137-150.
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Sampling Distribution Lesson Plan
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Robustness Lesson Plan by Khaleel Al-Harbi
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Power Lesson Plan by Abdulbaset Abdulla
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Sample Size Lesson Plan by
Gibbs Kanyongo
MC3G
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that runs Monte
Carlo simulations for 3-level ANOVA. By providing the total number of
rejections at the user-specified level of significance, MC3G performs
robustness analyses when means are equal and power analyses when the means are
not equal. The original purpose of the program was to assist in the
instruction of power analysis and violations of assumptions for introductory
educational statistics courses. However, with a little effort the program
can be used to answer actual Monte Carlo research questions. MC3G was most recently
presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, April 2002, New Orleans, LA.
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Brooks,
G. P., Abdulla, A., Al-Harbi, K., Kanyongo, G., Kyei-Blankson, L., &
Gocmen, G. (2002, April). Teaching introductory statistics with the help of
Monte Carlo methods. Paper presented at the meeting of the American
Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
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MC3G
has essentially been replaced by MC4G (see below), but it does do a few things
differently.
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Robustness Lesson Plan by Gulsah Gocmen
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Sample Size Lesson Plan by
Lydia Kyei-Blankson
MC4G
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that runs Monte Carlo
simulations for One-Way ANOVA (with 2, 3, or 4 levels). By providing the total
number of rejections at the user-specified level of significance, MC4G performs
robustness analyses when means are equal and power analyses when the means are
not equal. It can also be used to estimate required sample sizes. Its initial
purpose was to illustrate a variety of Type I Error problems associated with
ANOVA (e.g., violations of assumptions, compared to multiple t tests,
probability of at least one Type I Error from multiple orthogonal tests). MC4G was most recently
presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, May
2004, Chicago, IL, and an article about MC4G is in press to be published in
2005 in Teaching of Psychology.
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Brooks,
G. P., & Raffle, H. (2004, May). Using Monte Carlo software for ANOVA to
teach abstract statistical concepts. Paper presented as a Teaching
Institute poster at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago,
IL.
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Raffle,
H., & Brooks, G. P. (2005). Using Monte Carlo software to teach abstract
statistical concepts: A case study. Teaching of Psychology, 32, 193-195.
doi: 10.1207/s15328023top3203_12
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MC4G Instructor's Manual by Holly Raffle
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Multiple t-Test Type I Error Inflation Lesson Plan
by Hua Gao
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Violation of Homoscedasticity Student
Worksheet by Holly Raffle
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Violation of Homoscedasticity Lesson
Plan by Gulsah Gocmen
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Underappreciated Factors that Effect Statistical Power
by Gordon Brooks, George Johanson, & Robert Barcikowski
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Asymptotic Alpha: Characterizing Type I
Error Rates under Heterogeneity of Variances by Gordon Brooks,
Victor Heh, & Hua Fang
MCCM
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that performs
Monte Carlo analyses for several bivariate correlations simultaneously,
particularly useful to show the effect on Type I error (or power) when testing
several bivariate correlations all at alpha of .05. That is, it will generate
data to illustrate the effect on Type I error of running multiple bivariate
correlations simultaneously. The user can specify item means and standard
deviations as well as correlations.
MCMR
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that
performs Monte Carlo analyses for Multiple Linear Regression with up to 6
predictors. The user must specify means and standard deviations as well as correlations, but can also import a single file for
analysis. MCMR was most
recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, March 2008, New York, NY, and an article about MCMR was in
Multiple Linear Regression Viewpoints (www.glmj.org/).
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Brooks,
G. P. (2008, March). A Monte Carlo program for multiple linear regression.
Paper accepted for presentation at the 2008 meeting of the American Educational
Research Association, New York, NY.
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Brooks,
G. P. (2008). A Monte Carlo program for multiple linear regression. Multiple
Linear Regression Viewpoints, 34(2), 15-43.
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Instructor's Guide from AERA 2008
(very large file, about 12 MB)
MNDG
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that generates
Multivariate Normal data. A
program announcement for MNDG was published in 2002 in Applied
Psychological Measurement.
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Brooks,
G. P. (2002). MNDG: Multivariate Normal Data Generator. Applied
Psychological Measurement, 26, 353-354.
MUD
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP program written in Delphi Pascal that generates data
to mimic survey/questionnaire data. The user can specify item means and
standard deviations as well as inter-item correlations. The user can specify an
embedded multiple-item scale with separate inter-item correlations (the total
scale score is used in calculating correlations for the questionnaire
variables).
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Paper presented at AERA 2006
TAP
is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7 program written in Delphi Pascal that performs
test analyses and item analyses based on classical test theory. TAP is a
classical test and item analysis program. It provides reports for examinee
total scores, item statistics (e.g., item difficulty, item discrimination,
point-biserial), options analyses, and other useful information. TAP also
provides individual examinee reports of total scores and item responses.
Although any AUXILIARY MATERIALS may have been created for use with a previous
version of the program, they should still be very useful with newer versions of
the program; that is, changes to the program usually are not dramatic enough to
make earlier manuals obsolete. TAP
was most recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Society, May 2004, Chicago, IL, and a program announcement for TAP was
published in 2003 in Applied Psychological Measurement.
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Brooks,
G. P., Johanson, G. A., Lewis, M., & Kyei-Blankson, L. (2003, April). Using
the Test Analysis Program in introductory measurement courses. Paper
discussion presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, Chicago, IL.
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Brooks,
G. P., & Johanson, G. A. (2003). Test Analysis Program. Applied
Psychological Measurement, 27, 305-306.
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Download TAP.EXE Most Recent Version, May require more RAM memory (N<25000)
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User's Guide by Marsha Lewis (written
for TAP4 but mostly still valid)
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Instructor's Guide by George
Johanson (written for TAP4 but mostly still valid)
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Download TAP10K.EXE 2014 Version (still
with N<9999)
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Download TAP6.EXE 2005 Version
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