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Psychology
Debian Med packages for psychology

This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software which might be helpful for psychological research.

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Debian Med Psychology packages

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orthanc-neuro
Neuroimaging plugin for Orthanc
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This package installs a plugin for Orthanc, the lightweight, RESTful Vendor Neutral Archive for medical imaging. This plugin adds support for neuroimaging in Orthanc, notably to easily convert from DICOM to NIfTI.

Please cite: Sebastien Jodogne: The Orthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging. J Digit Imaging (2018)
praat
program for speech analysis and synthesis
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According to its authors, praat is "doing phonetics by computer". Through its graphical interface, several speech analysis functionalities are available: spectrograms, cochleograms, and pitch and formant extraction. Articulatory synthesis, as well as synthesis from pitch, formant, and intensity are also available. Other features are segmentation, labelling using the phonetic alphabet, and computation of statistics. Praat is configurable and extensible through its own scripting language and has provisions for communicating with other programs.

Please cite: Paul Boersma: Praat, a system for doing phonetics by computer. Glot International 5(9/10):341-345 (2001)
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psignifit
Fitting and testing hypotheses about psychometric functions
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Psignifit allows fitting of psychometric functions to datasets while maintaining full control over a large number of parameters. Data can either be read from text files or passed through a pipe.

Psignifit performs the calculation of confidence intervals as well as goodness-of-fit tests.

This is the command line version.

Please note: This is the legacy version 2.x of psignifit.

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psychopy
environment for creating psychology stimuli in Python
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PsychoPy provides an environment for creating psychology stimuli using Python scripting language. It combines the graphical strengths of OpenGL with easy Python syntax to give psychophysics a free and simple stimulus presentation and control package.

The goal is to provide, for the busy scientist, tools to control timing and windowing and a simple set of pre-packaged stimuli and methods. PsychoPy features

  • IDE GUI for coding in a powerful scripting language (Python)
  • Builder GUI for rapid development of stimulation sequences
  • Use of hardware-accelerated graphics (OpenGL)
  • Integration with Spectrascan PR650 for easy monitor calibration
  • Simple routines for staircase and constant stimuli experimental methods as well as curve-fitting and bootstrapping
  • Simple (or complex) GUIs via wxPython
  • Easy interfaces to joysticks, mice, sound cards etc. via PyGame
  • Video playback (MPG, DivX, AVI, QuickTime, etc.) as stimuli
The package is enhanced by the following packages: python-pyoptical
Please cite: Jonathan W.Peirce: PsychoPy—Psychophysics software in Python. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 162(1-2):8-13 (2007)
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python3-bioxtasraw
process biological small angle scattering data
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BioXTAS RAW is a GUI based, Python program for reduction and analysis of small-angle X-ray solution scattering (SAXS) data. The package is designed for biological SAXS data.

BioXTAS RAW provides an alternative to closed source programs such as Primus and Scatter for primary data analysis. Because it can calibrate, mask, and integrate images it also provides an alternative to synchrotron beamline pipelines that scientists can install on their own computers and use both at home and at the beamline.

r-cran-foreign
GNU R package to read/write data from other stat. systems
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel
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This package provides functions for reading and writing data stored by statistical packages such as Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ...

This package is part of the set of packages that are 'recommended' by R Core and shipped with upstream source releases of R itself.

r-cran-psy
GNU R procedures for psychometrics
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This package includes several procedures used in psychometrics and scaling, including:

  • Cohen's Kappa and weighted Kappa (two-rater agreement tests)
  • Cronbach's Alpha (an item-reliability test)
  • Focused Principal Components Analysis
  • Intraclass correlation coefficients
  • Light's Kappa (an N-rater agreement test)
  • Screeplots and graphical representations of principal components
Remark of Debian Med team: r-cran-psy is orphaned upstream.

Hint to users of statistical psychological software. This package seems to be orphaned upstream. There are several related packages at CRAN for instance. See the list of prospective packages below and drop the Debian Med team a note if you are interested in one of them.

r-cran-psych
GNU R procedures for psychological, psychometric, and personality research
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This GNU R package provides a general purpose toolbox for personality, psychometric theory and experimental psychology. Functions are primarily for multivariate analysis and scale construction using factor analysis, principal component analysis, cluster analysis and reliability analysis, although others provide basic descriptive statistics. Item Response Theory is done using factor analysis of tetrachoric and polychoric correlations. Functions for analyzing data at multiple levels include within and between group statistics, including correlations and factor analysis. Functions for simulating and testing particular item and test structures are included. Several functions serve as a useful front end for structural equation modeling. Graphical displays of path diagrams, factor analysis and structural equation models are created using basic graphics. Some of the functions are written to support a book on psychometric theory as well as publications in personality research.

r-cran-psychometric
GNU R applied psychometric theory
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Contains GNU R functions useful for correlation theory, meta-analysis (validity-generalization), reliability, item analysis, inter-rater reliability, and classical utility.

r-cran-psychotree
GNU R recursive partitioning based on psychometric models
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Recursive partitioning based on psychometric models, employing the general MOB algorithm (from package partykit) to obtain Bradley-Terry trees, Rasch trees, rating scale and partial credit trees, and MPT trees.

r-cran-psyphy
functions for analyzing psychophysical data in GNU R
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An assortment of functions that could be useful in analyzing data from psychophysical experiments. It includes functions for calculating d' from several different experimental designs, links for m-alternative forced- choice (mafc) data to be used with the binomial family in glm (and possibly other contexts) and self-Start functions for estimating gamma values for CRT screen calibrations.

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

python-pyepl
module for coding psychology experiments in Python
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PyEPL is a stimuli delivery and response registration toolkit to be used for generating psychology (as well as neuroscience, marketing research, and other) experiments.

It provides

  • presentation: both visual and auditory stimuli
  • responses registration: both manual (keyboard/joystick) and sound (microphone) time-stamped
  • sync-pulsing: synchronizing your behavioral task with external acquisition hardware
  • flexibility of encoding various experiments due to the use of Python as a description language
  • fast execution of critical points due to the calls to linked compiled libraries

This toolbox is here to be an alternative for a widely used commercial product E'(E-Prime)

This package provides PyEPL for supported versions of Python.

The package is enhanced by the following packages: python-pyoptical
python3-bids-validator
validator for the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) datasets
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This package contains a Python module to validate BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) datasets. It does not contain original bids-validator command line tool (written in JS).

python3-bmtk
development package for building, simulating and analysing large-scale networks
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The brain modelling toolkit is a software development package for building, simulating and analysing large-scale networks of different levels of resolution.

python3-pynwb
Python library for working with Neurodata in the NWB format
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PyNWB is a Python package for working with NWB files. It provides a high-level API for efficiently working with Neurodata stored in the NWB format.

Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology (NWB:N) is a project to develop a unified data format for cellular-based neurophysiology data, focused on the dynamics of groups of neurons measured under a large range of experimental conditions.

science-psychophysics
Debian Science packages for Psychophysics
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This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for carrying out any experiment relating physical stimuli and their psychological effects.

The selection of packages is targeting software for stimuli delivery. For additional software related to the analysis of the acquired data refer to science-neuroscience-cognitive, med-imaging depending on the domain of application. Additionally look into science-bci since those often provide a complete loop frameworks including stimuli delivery.

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