Research methods and statistics : a critical thinking approach / Sherri L. Jackson.

By:

Jackson, Sherri L, 1962- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780495510017
9780495510062

Subject(s):

Psychometrics -- Textbooks

LOC classification:

BF76 .R474 2009
BF76

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Contents:

2. Getting started: ideas, resources, and ethics -- 3. Defining, measuring, and manipulating variables -- 4. Descriptive methods -- 5. Data organizations and descriptive statistics -- 6. Correlational methods and statistics -- 7. Hypothesis testing and inferential statistics -- 8. The logic of experimental design -- 9. Inferential statistics: Two-group designs -- 10. Experimental designs with more than two levels of an independent variable -- 11. Complex experimental designs -- 12. Quasi-experimental and single-case designs -- 13. APA communication guidelines -- 14. APA sample manuscript.

Scope and content: The text begins with chapters on science and getting started in research. Measurement issues and descriptive methods and statistics are then covered, followed by correlational methods and statistics. Hypothesis testing and inferential statistics are introduced, followed by experimental design and the appropriate inferential statistics for analyzing such designs. The final three chapters present quasi-experimental and single-case designs. APA guidelines on writing, and a sample APA manuscript. --

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1. Thinking like a scientist -- 2. Getting started: ideas, resources, and ethics -- 3. Defining, measuring, and manipulating variables -- 4. Descriptive methods -- 5. Data organizations and descriptive statistics -- 6. Correlational methods and statistics -- 7. Hypothesis testing and inferential statistics -- 8. The logic of experimental design -- 9. Inferential statistics: Two-group designs -- 10. Experimental designs with more than two levels of an independent variable -- 11. Complex experimental designs -- 12. Quasi-experimental and single-case designs -- 13. APA communication guidelines -- 14. APA sample manuscript.

The text begins with chapters on science and getting started in research. Measurement issues and descriptive methods and statistics are then covered, followed by correlational methods and statistics. Hypothesis testing and inferential statistics are introduced, followed by experimental design and the appropriate inferential statistics for analyzing such designs. The final three chapters present quasi-experimental and single-case designs. APA guidelines on writing, and a sample APA manuscript. --

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