We discuss the problem of music content analysis within the formal framework of experimental design.

The likelihood principle of Bayesian statistics implies that information about the experimental design from which evidence is collected does not enter into the statistical analysis of the data. In the present paper, I argue that information about the experimental design is nevertheless of value for an assessment of the reliability of the experiment, which is a pre-experimental measure of how we...

In the paper a usual block design with treatment effects fixed and block effects random is considered. To compare experimental design the asymptotic covariance matrix of a robust estimator proposed by Bednarski and Zontek (1996) for simultaneous estimation of shift and scale parameters is used. Asymptotically Aand Doptimal block designs in the class of designs with bounded block sizes are chara...

10.1 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN .............................. 424 10.1.1 Randomization ................................................................................... 430 10.1.2 Replication and Pseudoreplication ................................................. 431 10.1.3 Design Control .................................................................................. 437 10...

The existing literature acknowledges that a mismatch between the experimenter’s and the subjects’ models of an experimental task can adversely affect the interpretation of data from laboratory experiments. We discuss why the two common experimental designs (between-subjects and within-subjects) used to conduct experiments may fail to sufficiently account for this concern. An alternative design ...

Carter [1] identifies putative conceptual and methodological flaws in a paper from our laboratory on the effects of the social environment on exploration– avoidance behaviour in a cichlid fish [2]. Although we welcome discussion of methodological issues that fosters the use of more solid experimental designs in personality research and we acknowledge that the experimental design used can be fur...

The activation of conceptual metaphors has always been studied one mapping at a time. What happens when various conceptual metaphors are processed at the same time is still unknown. The experimental design used here enabled the activation of three conceptual metaphors at the same time (past-left/future-right, negative-left/positive-right and negativepast/positive-future). Participants had to ma...