Foundations of Behavioral Statistics :An Insight-Based Approach

Publication subTitle :An Insight-Based Approach

Author: Thompson> Bruce  

Publisher: Guilford Publications Inc‎

Publication year: 2006

E-ISBN: 9781606231364

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781593852856

Subject: B841.7 心理测验

Keyword: 心理学,护理学,临床医学,社会学,教育学,教育

Language: ENG

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Description

With humor, extraordinary clarity, and carefully paced explanations and examples, Bruce Thompson shows readers how to use the latest techniques for interpreting research outcomes as well as how to make statistical decisions that result in better research. Utilizing the general linear model to demonstrate how different statistical methods are related to each other, Thompson integrates a broad array of methods involving only a single dependent variable, ranging from classical and robust location descriptive statistics, through effect sizes, and on through ANOVA, multiple regression, loglinear analysis and logistic regression. Special features include SPSS and Excel demonstrations that offer opportunities, in the book’s datasets and on Thompson’s website, for further exploration of statistical dynamics.

Chapter

Levels of Scale

Some Experimental Design Considerations

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 2. Location

Reasonable Expectations for Statistics

Location Concepts

Three Classical Location Descriptive Statistics

Four Criteria for Evaluating Statistics

Two Robust Location Statistics

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 3. Dispersion

Quality of Location Descriptive Statistics

Important in Its Own Right

Measures of Score Spread

Variance

Situation-Specific Maximum Dispersion

Robust Dispersion Descriptive Statistics

Standardized Score World

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 4. Shape

Two Shape Descriptive Statistics

Normal Distributions

Two Additional Univariate Graphics

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 5. Bivariate Relationships

Pearson’s r

Three Features of r

Three Interpretation Contextual Factors

Psychometrics of the Pearson r

Spearman’s rho

Two Other r-Equivalent Correlation Coefficients

Bivariate Normality

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 6. Statistical Significance

Sampling Distributions

Hypothesis Testing

Properties of Sampling Distributions

Standard Error/Sampling Error

Test Statistics

Statistical Precision and Power

pCALCULATED

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 7. Practical Significance

Effect Sizes

Confidence Intervals

Confidence Intervals for Effect Sizes

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 8. Multiple Regression Analysis: Basic GLM Concepts

Purposes of Regression

Simple Linear Prediction

Case #1: Perfectly Uncorrelated Predictors

Case #2: Correlated Predictors, No Suppressor Effects

Case #3: Correlated Predictors, Suppressor Effects Present

β Weights versus Structure Coefficients

A Final Comment on Collinearity

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 9. A GLM Interpretation Rubric

Do I Have Anything?

Where Does My Something Originate?

Stepwise Methods

Invoking Some Alternative Models

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 10. One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Experimentwise Type I Error

ANOVA Terminology

The Logic of Analysis of Variance

Practical and Statistical Significance

The “Homogeneity of Variance” Assumption

Post Hoc Tests

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 11. Multiway and Other Alternative ANOVA Models

Multiway Models

Factorial versus Nonfactorial Analyses

Fixed-, Random-, and Mixed-Effects Models

Brief Comment on ANCOVA

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 12. The General Linear Model (GLM): ANOVA via Regression

Planned Contrasts

Trend/Polynomial Planned Contrasts

Repeated-Measures ANOVA via Regression

GLM Lessons

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Chapter 13. Some Logistic Models: Model Fitting in a Logistic Context

Logistic Regression

Loglinear Analysis

Some Key Concepts

Reflection Problems

Appendix: Scores (n = 100) with Near Normal Distributions

References

Index

About the Author

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