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Synthetic teaching data for jamovi Desktop

Twelve datasets. Every result already verified.

Free, openly licensed practice data for teaching and learning statistics in jamovi — each file with a data dictionary, a mapped analysis workflow, and independently recomputed results, so a student can check their own output field by field.

CC BY 4.0 12 datasets Verified on jamovi 28.2 No login SHA-256 checksums

Start in three steps

About five minutes, from nothing to a result you can check.

  1. Take a CSV and its dictionary

    Pick a study from the table below. Download the CSV, and open its dictionary before the data — it tells you what each variable means, how it is coded, and where the missing values sit.

  2. Import it into jamovi

    Open jamovi Desktop, choose File › Open › Browse, and select the CSV. Check the measurement levels and group ordering against the dictionary before running anything.

  3. Check yourself against the record

    Run the workflow named for that study, then compare your output with the matching file in expected-results/. If a number differs, one of you is wrong — and you can find out which.

The twelve datasets

Each one exercises a different design. Chapter numbers refer to the companion book, but nothing here requires it — ANALYSIS_MATRIX.md names the workflow and the result fields for every file.

Dataset What it teaches jamovi workflow Ch.
study_01_foundations_sleep_stress.csvdictionaryverified results Foundations — sleep hours and stress in a student sample Fresh CSV import, descriptives, histogram, boxplot 1–7
study_02_mindfulness_paired.csvdictionaryverified results A paired pre/post design Paired-samples t test, bootstrap demonstration, power planning 8–11, 17
study_03_feedback_two_groups.csvdictionaryverified results Two independent groups Welch independent-samples t test, effect size 16, 18
study_04_practice_spacing_anova.csvdictionaryverified results Three or more groups One-way ANOVA with post hoc comparisons 19
study_05_sleep_strategy_factorial.csvdictionaryverified results Two crossed factors and an interaction Factorial ANOVA, marginal means, interaction plot 20
study_06_mood_repeated.csvdictionaryverified results Repeated measurements on the same people Repeated-measures ANOVA, sphericity check 21
study_07_belonging_survey_regression.csvdictionaryverified results Survey data, association and prediction Simple and multiple regression, residual plots 12–15
study_08_help_seeking_categorical.csvdictionaryverified results Counts and categories Chi-square test, contingency table 22
study_09_skewed_wellbeing_nonparametric.csvdictionaryverified results Skewed distributions, when the usual test will not do Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U 23
study_10_developmental_emotion_recognition.csvdictionaryverified results Age groups and a covariate ANOVA and ANCOVA 24
study_11_single_case_habit_tracking.csvdictionaryverified results A single-case series across phases Phase analysis, NAP, visual inspection 25
study_12_reporting_handoff_capstone.csvdictionaryverified results Capstone — auditing and reporting a result Audit, export, APA summary verification 26–27

Browse the folders directly: data, dictionaries, expected-results, figures — or read the full analysis matrix.

What is in the repository

Everything below is public, free, and requires no account.

Twelve CSV datasets

Deterministic synthetic data, one file per teaching example, in data/.

A dictionary for every file

Machine-readable: variable meanings, coding, allowed values, and where the missing values are placed.

Analysis matrix

ANALYSIS_MATRIX.md maps each dataset to its jamovi workflow and the exact output fields that answer its question.

Verified result records

expected-results/ holds every reported statistic, recomputed independently from the source files.

Six figures

Generated from the same data at fixed seeds, in figures/generated/, so you can regenerate them yourself.

Checksums and errata

SHA256SUMS confirms the file you have is the file that was published. ERRATA.md is where corrections go.

Free psychology statistics practice materials

A complete problems-and-solutions resource for practice, teaching, adaptation, and reuse.

Eleven units, 232 problems, and 232 fully worked solutions

Psychology Statistics Practice Materials with Jamovi: Model Choice, Worked Solutions, and Scientific Evidence begins with research questions and design, then develops model choice, description, uncertainty, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, effect sizes, power, correlation, regression, t tests, and one-way ANOVA.

Download the print-ready PDF or the editable DOCX. Both are licensed CC BY 4.0, so instructors and learners may share and adapt the resource with appropriate attribution. All scenarios are fictional and all teaching data are synthetic.

Version 1.1 has the permanent DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22262048.

Volume 2 — beyond group means

The four topics a first course reaches last, with the same structure and the same license.

Four units, 96 problems, and 96 fully worked solutions

Psychology Statistics Practice Materials with Jamovi, Volume 2: Categorical, Rank-Based, Quasi-Experimental, and Single-Case Evidence continues the unit numbering of Volume 1 at Unit 12. It covers categorical outcomes and association, rank-based comparisons and robust thinking, quasi-experimental comparison and covariate adjustment, and single-case designs and nonoverlap.

Its organising claim is that none of these is a substitute for a method in Volume 1. Each changes the question, not only the procedure — a categorical outcome has no mean, a rank method does not estimate a difference in the outcome’s units, adjusting for a consequence of the grouping variable removes part of the effect, and forty-two days of one person are one case.

Every teaching variant in the problems is a filter on one of four public datasets, so a reader can reproduce it in jamovi Desktop with a row filter and no new file. Both formats are licensed CC BY 4.0. All scenarios are fictional and all teaching data are synthetic.

Version 1.0 has the permanent DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22286929. Unit 13 matches jamovi’s epsilon-squared definition: 0.302 for the complete Study 09 file and 0.325 for its deletion variant, while retaining 0.291 and 0.314 under the separate label bias-adjusted rank effect size.

Together the two volumes cover fifteen units, 328 problems, and 328 fully worked solutions.

Use it in your own teaching

The licence is the point, not a footnote.

Take any of this into your own course, without asking

The datasets, dictionaries, figures, errata, and documentation are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Short utility scripts are MIT. You may copy, adapt, and redistribute any of it — in worksheets, assignments, lecture slides, or your own published materials, including commercially — provided you give credit.

Every file is deterministic and synthetic. There are no real participant records, so nothing here raises a privacy question when it goes into a classroom, a public assignment, or a shared repository. Results computed from these files are teaching examples, not findings about real people.

A request, not a condition: if there is a design you keep wanting clean teaching data for and cannot find, say so. Adding one is a day's work, and guessing what people need is worse than being told.

Corrections and reader support

Check a verified correction, report a reproducible problem, or discuss the public teaching materials.

Check known corrections

Read the live errata log before reporting a possible book or companion-file error.

Report a reproducible problem

Use a structured Issue Form for an erratum, file-specific question or defect, or jamovi output mismatch.

Join a bounded discussion

Use Discussions for the public datasets, open practice materials, published workflows, and teaching feedback. Read the community scope first.

Please do not post private data, homework, or requests for individualized model selection or statistical consulting.

About

These files were built by Nicholas Elliott Karlson, PhD, a statistician and educator, and published by NEKpress Research. His work focuses on applied statistical reasoning, research design, reproducibility, and workflows in jamovi, Python, and R that make quantitative results easier to inspect, explain, and defend.

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The data was built for a book, and does not require it

Psychology Research Methods and Statistics by Design with Jamovi takes each topic from a research question through a jamovi workflow to an APA-style result and the limitation that keeps it honest. Twenty-seven chapters. The datasets on this page are its companion — but they stand alone, and the analysis matrix names every workflow independently of the text.

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