<div dir="ltr">Thanks David. PST support have suggested the same thing, i.e. removing outliers based on an arbitrary threshold. However, I think I'd nevertheless like to try removing them by using a number of std devs away from the mean. I'm not sure this could be done in Excel or SPSS (at least without a macro, which I don't personally know much about), given that what you export there are just raw RTs (one trial per row, for all sessions and for all subjects). To eliminate outliers within each subject's session, it seems to me that you'd really have to write a Matlab script to use on the exported Excel file. Since eliminating RTs this way is such a basic (and commonly done) operation, it is regrettable that it is not included in Edataaid's Analyze window. Perhaps in a future version...<br><br>On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 00:10:38 UTC+1, McFarlane, David wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">To eliminate all RTs greater than a certain fixed value, just use a
<br>filter in E-DataAid, or in the Analyze tool of E-DataAid -- I am
<br>pretty sure that this is covered in the tutorial Guides that came
<br>with E-Prime (and I also cover this in my online course).
<br>
<br>If you want custom filters for individual subjects or for individual
<br>sessions of each subject, or if you want the filter criterion to be
<br>derived from some computation based on the data, then I think you
<br>will have to use another tool, as far as I know those sorts of
<br>analyses go beyond what E-DataAid can do and what it is meant to
<br>do. As you already know, E-DataAid will easily reveal mean RTs for
<br>each subject, or for each session of each subject, but from there you
<br>have to explort data and do the rest in Excel, SPSS, Systat, or what have you.
<br>
<br>I do like E-DataAid and its Analyze feature a lot for initial data
<br>preparation (e.g., filtering rows and selecting columns to export)
<br>and for initial exploration of descriptive statistics, and I devote
<br>one lesson in my online course to covering these uses, but after that
<br>I would export the data for further analysis (e.g., hypothesis
<br>testing, ANOVA, etc.).
<br>
<br>Just my $.02, curious to hear from others.
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<br>At 10/7/2013 04:27 PM Monday, tudor wrote:
<br>>I have a merged .emrg2 (EdataAid) file containing reaction time data
<br>>from several subjects, across several sessions done by each. I would
<br>>like to eliminate RT outliers within each subject individually, and
<br>>if possible also within session rather than across all sessions of a
<br>>single subject.
<br>>
<br>>By 'outlier' I would mean RTs that are more than 2.5 standard
<br>>deviations away from the mean, although if that's hard to do, it
<br>>would also be fine to just eliminate all RTs greater than a certain
<br>>fixed value (e.g. 3,000 ms).
<br>>
<br>>I have not found a way to do this with the Analyze window, and
<br>>because I have many such merged files, I would prefer to not have to
<br>>do this 'the hard way', i.e. by exporting all the data to Excel and
<br>>doing the outlier-removal and the averaging (which is otherwise done
<br>>easily in Analyze) over there.
<br>>
<br>>Can anyone help? Many thanks in advance!
<br>
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