grimbeek.com.au

Stats notes moved to main site

peteg — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:55:56 +0000

The heading says it all.
I’m leaving the stats notes (wordpress site) material in place but have also relocated most of it to the main site as that seems to make more sense (e.g., everything about Leximancer or MANOVA accessible from same page).
Also, my wordpress sites seem to be vulnerable to spam-artists – possibly because I haven’t kept the version updated sufficiently.

Change of main site name, etc

peteg — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:20:27 +0000

I’ve changed the banner on the main site to something closer to its statistical focus – out with the old and in with the new.
I’ve also detached the poetry & music blog from the main site pending further thought on what to do there.
I’m inclined to ditch the blog based approach to statistical thinking in favour of tighter integration with the main site.
That of course takes time, time I may not have for now.

WordPress weird stuff

peteg — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:55:10 +0000

Today I wrote what I thought was a new post only to find it classified as a new page.
The difference is that the former shows up on the site after publication but the latter doesn’t.
This is weird.

Registration issues

peteg — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:07:22 +0000

I’ve received several emails in the past few days from folk registering.
After attempting to register myself in an effort to see what would greet them after doing so, I discovered that while the site sends out an email with a default password, this default password is not necessarily accepted as a log-in (i.e., the URL works as a log-in device).
However, if the new user clicks on the adjacent URL in the notification email, this takes he/she/it directly into their own admin area.
At this point, you can amend your profile, including providing yourself with a new password (regardless of the old), which then works as a log-in.
I’ve set the entry level for new users as ‘contributor’. This means that new users can produce posts, but these then have to be submitted for review prior to publication.
If you’ve done so, and want to ensure that publication occurs in a timely fashion, then I’d suggest you send an email reminder (using the contact details provided).
I’d like to cut out the middle man by providing direct author privileges but doing so would allow the unscrupulous to delete stuff I’d rather not see deleted.
I should also point out that it is necessary to register separately for each of the three blog oriented sites (including this one).
Given that the web is crawling not only with the curious and the interested but also with automated spambots, etc, I have to be a tiny bit cautious.
As an additional bit of information, it’s worth searching the net to find traces of anyone who does register. It’s surprising how often these registrations are the work of spambots.
For instance, one of my recent registrations uses the following email address: jacobkolp@gmail.com
To read more about this enterprising spambotter, go to http://cubelodyte.com/category/minor-details/
You won’t find these listed as spambots but they do like to register around the net and don’t generally comment: ioulytrter@gmail.com, jutyrtereyr@gmail.com, & sheshemal@gmail.com.

Leximancer, photos, etc

peteg — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:37:15 +0000

I’ve added some additional information about Leximancer.
I’ve also added a link to a photo gallery with exactly one photo in it so far.
I’ve also changed the main site heading for the third time in recent weeks (from Peter Grimbeek’s website, to grimbeek.com.au website, to Peter Grimbeek online).

More tidying up

peteg — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:41:16 +0000

I’ve added guides providing elementary information more generally about quantitative and qualitative issues, and more specifically about quantitative (MANOVA) and qualitative procedures (e.g., how to use Leximancer and NVivo to do text analysis).
I’ve also ensured that the links to guides are functional (I forgot to upload some of the guides previously).

Anticipating 2008

peteg — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:28:16 +0000

I’ve returned to this website after some months, and have pruned it here and there. I’ve also added some new stuff.

One of the surprises is that three links to associated sites that functioned a year ago are now defunct. These sites have either relocated to escape the stream of visitors generated via this site or succumbed to rough Net seas (drowned in the net).

Best wishes for 2008.

Forum deleted

peteg — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:31 +0000

I’ve removed the forum option from this website as it was only attracting Viagra advertisers and the like, and the PhP bulletin board software did not allow me to remove these “contributors” or even delete their posts.

If you do want to ask a question or make a comment related to research methods, including data analysis (quant or qual), I’d suggest you contact me directly (via the contact link embedded in the banner header to pages on the main site).

Post on MANOVA in stats blog

peteg — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:03:03 +0000

I’ve added a reasonably detailed post on reporting MANOVA output for SPSS.

More stuff

peteg — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:08:26 +0000

I’ve added another page to the main site, Guides, with what is hopefully the beginning of a set of how-to-do guides related to various statistical endeavours.

I’ve updated the drop-down menu and re-arranged the order of elements – this took most of the time.