Empirical Direction in Design and Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780805839784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 880 str.

Norman Anderson

Opis

Established researchers and first-year graduate psychology students, virtually all of whom are required to take two or three quarters of statistics. This book's goal is to help students develop skills of scientific inferences. To accomplish this, the author has developed the experimental pyramid which summarizes the philosophy of the book. Containing six levels, the pyramid portrays a hierarchy of considerations involved in empirical investigation. Unlike most texts, this one does not place the usual emphasis on null hypothesis testing and it de-emphasizes computational formulas to invest more time on fostering an understanding of what the statistics are supposed to do. The first 12 chapters present a core intended for the first-year graduate student. To facilitate conceptual and empirical understanding, far fewer formulas are presented than in other texts. The book offers a heavy emphasis on confidence intervals and separate chapters on confounding and single subject design. The last nine chapters serve as a reference handbook by focusing on specialized topics including within-versus-between design, Latin squares, multiple regression, analysis of covariance, quasi-experimental d

Recenzje

"...Anderson's latest book is truly remarkable. It is a graduate level text with the first 12 chapters covering core principles and the remaining 9 chapters serving as an excellent reference on numerous statistical methods and design issues....The book captivates your attention as topics are addressed from a perspective you've never entertained when studying statistics and experimental design."
—Air Force Research Laboratory-Science and Technology

"Unlike most statistics texts, this one strives to be both educational and polemical--the author wants most graduate programs teaching statistics to be more empirically based (no new claim) so that future psychologists will acquire sounder research judgment. Novelty lies, however, in the integrated approach Anderson offers for developing such judgment....This book is clearly the culmination of a career devoted to rigorous reliance on the experimental method, meticulous and thoughtful planning of research, and a delight in solving cognitive-behavioral puzzles."
—Contemporary Psychology

Spis treści

Contents: Scientific Inference. Statistical Inference. Elements of ANOVA-I. Elements of ANOVA-II. Factorial Design. Repeated Measures Design. Understanding Interactions. Confounding. Regression and Correlation. Frequency Data and Chi-Square. Single Subject Design. Nonnormal Data and Unequal Variance. Analysis of Covariance. Design Topics I. Design Topics II. Multiple Regression. Multiple Comparisons. Sundry Topics. Foundations of Statistics. Math Models for Process Analysis. Toward Unified Theory. Principles & Tactics for Writing. Lifelong Learning. Basic Statistical Concepts.

O autorze

Norman H. Anderson