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Streetmaps with R

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Scraping canteens' daily lunch offers using R

The lunch offers at ETH Zurich are great and there is plenty of canteens to go to, on both locations of the campus in the city centre …
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Software

In this blogpost I present some statistical programs that I use or have used in the past. It ranges from clickable GUIs such as JASP …
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What Eta Squared can tell us

Imagine a study, where students have to nominate the highest and lowest achiever from their class in mathematics — up to three names, …
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The (un-)periodic table of Deaths in Shakespeare's plays

The periodic table has evolved as a great tool to gain overview across various types of categorical data that is grouped by some common …
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Interests and Skills

R

Multilevel modelling

Network analysis

Item Response Theory

Structure Equation Modelling

Intelligence research

Learning and Instruction

Concept Mapping

Conceptual Change

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Software

R, JASP, SPSS, G*Power, Onyx, LaTeX

Survey Tools

Soscisurvey, Unipark, Qualtrics, Teleform

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Christian M. Thurn

PhD student in learning and instruction

ETH Zürich

Biography

Christian Thurn is a PhD student in Learning and Instruction at the Institute for Behavioral Sciences at ETH Zürich.

His research interests include intelligence, learning and instruction, cognition, as well as conceptual change. Methodologically he focuses on educational and psychological measurement as well as network analysis. He is also an enthusiastic R user and likes to analyze Shakespeare’s plays.

Interests

  • Intelligence, learning and instruction, cognition
  • Network analysis
  • Conceptual change
  • Doing things with R
  • Shakespeare’s plays

Education

  • PhD student, Learning and Instruction, since 2017

    ETH Zürich

  • MSc in Psychology, 2017

    University of Konstanz

  • BSc in Psychology, 2016

    University of Konstanz