Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Statistics

This innovative volume demonstrates the use of a range of statistical approaches that examine "turning points" (a change in direction, magnitude, or meaning) in real data. Analytic techniques are illustrated with real longitudinal data from a variety of fields. As such the book will appeal to a variety of researchers including:

• Developmental researchers interested in identifying factors precipitating turning points at various life stages.
• Medical or substance abuse researchers looking for turning points in disease or recovery.
• Social researchers interested...

This innovative volume demonstrates the use of a range of statistical approaches that examine "turning points" (a change in direction, magnitude, or meaning) in real data. Analytic techniques are illustrated with real longitudinal data from a variety of fields. As such the book will appeal to a variety of researchers including:

• Developmental researchers interested in identifying factors precipitating turning points at various life stages.
• Medical or substance abuse researchers looking for turning points in disease or recovery.
• Social researchers interested...

Drinking has become recognized as one of the most important problems facing today's college student. Even though college drinking has increased only modestly over the past few decades, concern about its health, behavioral, and safety consequences has risen rapidly. This book examines college drinking as a social problem within higher education, based on interviews with many leading figures engaged in addressing the problem. It assesses the evidence about how many students drink or drink excessively, and what kinds of behavioral and health problems they have as a consequence. The book...

This interdisciplinary volume features contributions from researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, statistics, computer science, and physics. State-of-the-art techniques and applications used to analyze data obtained from studies in cognition, emotion, and electrophysiology are reviewed along with techniques for modeling in real time and for examining lifespan cognitive changes, for conceptualizing change using item response, nonparametric and hierarchical models, and control theory-inspired techniques for deriving diagnoses in medical and psychotherapeutic settings. The...

Essentials of Behavioral Statistics distills the overwhelming amount of material covered in introductory statistics courses into a handy, practical resource for students and professionals alike. Easily accessible even to students with a weak background in math and only rudimentary knowledge of statistics, this book explains basic to advanced concepts in a clear, concrete, and readable style. Chock full of practical tips for selecting the appropriate statistical procedure, examples of worked problems, and summaries of statistical concepts, Essentials of Behavioral...

This volume addresses reliability, which is a fundamental aspect of any social science study that involves educational or psychological...

This is the first book to introduce the new statistics - effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis - in an accessible way. It is chock full of practical examples and tips on how to analyze and report research results using these techniques. The book is invaluable to readers interested in meeting the new APA Publication Manual guidelines by adopting the new statistics - which are more informative than null hypothesis significance testing, and becoming widely used in many disciplines.

Accompanying the book is the Exploratory Software for Confidence...

The book looks at the process of empirical research into the following seven stages:

• Formulation of the problem
• Stipulation of the precision requirements
• Selecting the...

• Clear guidelines on effective writing illustrate how to generate strong and compelling prose, even when the writing is not aimed at a research audience
• Incorporates changes to the guidelines contained in the 6^th edition of the...