Lesson plan

If delivered as a semester-long course, we suggest the following lesson plan.

Week 1

In class

• Slides in keynote, powerpoint, or pdf

After class

• Chapter 1: Required skills and its exercises
• Chapter 2: Foundation concepts

Week 2

In class

• Chapter 3: Writing functions

After class

• Chapter 3’s exercises

Week 3

In class

• Slides: Is this normally distributed?
• Chapter 4: Data Generating Process functions

After class

• Chapter 4’s exercises
• Chapter 5: Pseudo-random number generators

Week 4

In class

• Chapter 6: Analysis functions
• Chapter 11: Everything is regression

After class

• Chapter 6’s exercises

Week 5

In class

• Chapter 7: Creating simulation experiments

After class

• Chapter 7’s exercises

Week 6

In class

• Chapter 8: Mapping functions

After class

• Chapter 8’s exercises

Week 7

In class

• More discussion of Chapter 8: Mapping functions specifically map() and unnest()
• Chapter 12: Estimation

After class

• Chapter 12’s exercises

Week 8

In class

• Chapter 13: Hypothesis Testing.

After class

• Read Lakens et al. (2018) Equivalence Testing for Psychological Research: A Tutorial. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. doi: 10.1177/2515245918770963.
• Chapter 13’s exercises

Week 9

In class

• Chapter 14: Violating assumptions.

After class

• [TODO exercises needed]

Week 10

In class

• Chapter 15: Testing assumptions and conditional tests.

After class

• [TODO exercises in chapter - need to be moved to separate exercises appendix]

Week 11

In class

• Chapter 16: p-hacking.

After class

• [TODO exercises are in chapter - need to be moved to separate exercises appendix]

Week 12

In class

• Chapter 16: Causality and selection effects.

After class

• [TODO exercises needed]

Week 13

In class

• Discuss project ideas
• Read Siepe et al. (2024) Simulation studies for methodological research in psychology: A standardized template for planning, preregistration, and reporting. Psychological Methods. doi: 10.1037/met0000695.

Week 14

In class

• Discuss project ideas