TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Sherri L.
TI  - Research methods and statistics: a critical thinking approach 
SN  - 9780495510017
AV  - BF76 .R474 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Belmont, California
PB  - Wadsworth Cengage Learning
KW  - Psychometrics
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - 1 (pages 414-415) and index; 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; 2
N2  - 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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