Gregory R. Hancock
@GregoryRHancock
Professor, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Dir. of Quantitative Methodology: Measurement & Statistics, Univ. of Maryland; co-host of Quantitude (@quantitudepod)
I don’t know what the question is, but the answer is almost never “MANOVA.”
I have found Reviewer 2 to be less receptive when I make a similar claim…

Hi friends! Here’s a new paper with @TheYiFeng that might be the summer beach read you’re looking for. 😉 Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2025, June 6). nmax and the Quest to Restore Caution, Integrity, and Practicality to the Sample Size Planning Process. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…
S6E21 Quantitude: How the Sausage is Made In this last episode of Season 6 we pull back the curtain on the podcast in hopes that others might try doing this too, whether for simple fun or as a free speech platform in a time when communication is feeling increasingly compromised.
WIN FOR THE DAY: when moving your kid out of their college dorm room and you see this…

S6E20 Dominance Analysis This week Greg and Patrick explore the extremely clever yet inexplicably underused method of dominance analysis which offers a set of techniques for determining the relative importance of predictors in a regression model.
S6E19 Misheard (Statistical) Lyrics: A Mixtape This week we have fun with song lyrics we misunderstood at some point in our lives. We then use this as an excuse to explore some very basic statistical things we’ve also misunderstood at some point in our professional lives.
S6E18 Count Variables In today’s episode Patrick and Greg talk about outcomes that are count variables: when you need to worry about them and what you can do about them within your analytical models.
Taking your analyses to the necks level tomorrow…