Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Methods Meetings

Power Analysis Through Simulation

So, you’re designing an experiment and you’re faced with answering the age-old question: How many participants do I need for this experiment to work? Probably, your advisor sent you down...

Hidden Markov Models

Unconvoluting convolutions - an introduction and applications to neuroscience

If you’ve worked with any kind of neural data, convolutions were involved at some point. Having an intuition for convolutions is quite useful in thinking about what your data actually...

MATLAB basics

Blogging with markdown

Intro to Probabilistic Programming with Stan

In this tutorial we’re going to talk about what probabilistic programming is and how we can use it for statistical modeling. If you aren’t familiar at all with Bayesian stats,...