Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Statistics

Contemporary Psychometrics features cutting edge chapters organized in four sections: test theory, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and multivariate analysis.

The section on test theory includes topics such as multidimensional item response theory (IRT), the relationship between IRT and factor analysis, estimation and testing of these models, and basic measurement issues that are often neglected.

The factor analysis section reviews the history and development of the model, factorial invariance and factor analysis indeterminacy, and Bayesian inference...

Longitudinal Models in the Behavioral and Related Sciences opens with the latest theoretical developments. In particular, the book...

Longitudinal Models in the Behavioral and Related Sciences opens with the latest theoretical developments. In particular, the book...

Since the 1950s, social scientists have devoted serious attention to the relationship between alcohol and the workplace. In recent years, awareness of the tremendous costs, both human and financial, associated with alcoholism has led to a dramatic increase in both scholarly and practical interest in the field. Although researchers working in this area are relatively few, they have sustained a lively interest in the alcohol/work nexus and have attracted others to the field through conferences where ideas and research strategies are exchanged. The larger part of "Alcohol Problem Intervention...

• Makes abundant use of charts, diagrams and figures.
  
• Assumes no prior knowledge of statistics.
  
• Invaluable to all psychology students needing a firm grasp of the basics, but tackling of some of the topic's more complex, controversial issues will also fire the imagination of more ambitious students.
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  Invites students to consider whether the conclusion drawn at the end of each case is correct, or whether the results could have an alternative explanation.
  

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  Cross-referencing between sections is made easy by page references that link the case studies and explanations.
  

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  Cases reflect the range of research methods taught at undergraduate level and include...

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  Invites students to consider whether the conclusion drawn at the end of each case is correct, or whether the results could have an alternative explanation.
  

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  Cross-referencing between sections is made easy by page references that link the case studies and explanations.
  

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  Cases reflect the range of research methods taught at undergraduate level and include...

• Presents thorough coverage of key areas and topics.


• Provides consistently clear exposition and explanation, while remaining succinct and concise.


• Coverage of SPSS Versions 11, 12 and 13.


• Focuses on the practicalities of research, (the -how to do it- element).

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• Explores not only the procedural aspects of psychological research, but also delves into the issue of how to accomplish effective science.


• Explicates how hypotheses and theories are to be evaluated.


• Suggests that the proper approach to devising and evaluating theories is by abduction,...

• Explores not only the procedural aspects of psychological research, but also delves into the issue of how to accomplish effective science.


• Explicates how hypotheses and theories are to be evaluated.


• Suggests that the proper approach to devising and evaluating theories is by abduction,...

• Presents everything the well-prepared student needs to know about the principles and practice of writing for psychology
• Compares and contrasts the different writing requirements and techniques for essays and research reports in psychology
• Offers advice on constructing figures and producing properly formatted graphs and tables
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