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The Significance Test Controversy

Author : Ramon E. Henkel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351474162
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Significance Test Controversy written by Ramon E. Henkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tests of significance have been a key tool in the research kit of behavioral scientists for nearly fifty years, but their widespread and uncritical use has recently led to a rising volume of controversy about their usefulness. This book gathers the central papers in this continuing debate, brings the issues into clear focus, points out practical problems and philosophical pitfalls involved in using the tests, and provides a benchmark from which further analysis can proceed.The papers deal with some of the basic philosophy of science, mathematical and statistical assumptions connected with significance tests and the problems of the interpretation of test results, but the work is essentially non-technical in its emphasis. The collection succeeds in raising a variety of questions about the value of the tests; taken together, the questions present a strong case for vital reform in test use, if not for their total abandonment in research.The book is designed for practicing researchers-those not extensively trained in mathematics and statistics that must nevertheless regularly decide if and how tests of significance are to be used-and for those training for research. While controversy has been centered in sociology and psychology, and the book will be especially useful to researchers and students in those fields, its importance is great across the spectrum of the scientific disciplines in which statistical procedures are essential-notably political science, economics, and the other social sciences, education, and many biological fields as well.Denton E. Morrison is professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University.Ramon E. Henkel is associate professor emeritus, Department of Sociology University of Maryland. He teaches as part of the graduate faculty.

The Significance Test Controversy Revisited

Author : Bruno Lecoutre
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662440466
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Significance Test Controversy Revisited written by Bruno Lecoutre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is not only to revisit the “significance test controversy,”but also to provide a conceptually sounder alternative. As such, it presents a Bayesian framework for a new approach to analyzing and interpreting experimental data. It also prepares students and researchers for reporting on experimental results. Normative aspects: The main views of statistical tests are revisited and the philosophies of Fisher, Neyman-Pearson and Jeffrey are discussed in detail. Descriptive aspects: The misuses of Null Hypothesis Significance Tests are reconsidered in light of Jeffreys’ Bayesian conceptions concerning the role of statistical inference in experimental investigations. Prescriptive aspects: The current effect size and confidence interval reporting practices are presented and seriously questioned. Methodological aspects are carefully discussed and fiducial Bayesian methods are proposed as a more suitable alternative for reporting on experimental results. In closing, basic routine procedures regarding the means and their generalization to the most common ANOVA applications are presented and illustrated. All the calculations discussed can be easily carried out using the freeware LePAC package.

The Test Controversy Significance

Author : Denton E. Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780202300689
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Test Controversy Significance written by Denton E. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What If There Were No Significance Tests?

Author : Lisa L. Harlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131724284X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book What If There Were No Significance Tests? written by Lisa L. Harlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic edition of What If There Were No Significance Tests? highlights current statistical inference practices. Four areas are featured as essential for making inferences: sound judgment, meaningful research questions, relevant design, and assessing fit in multiple ways. Other options (data visualization, replication or meta-analysis), other features (mediation, moderation, multiple levels or classes), and other approaches (Bayesian analysis, simulation, data mining, qualitative inquiry) are also suggested. The Classic Edition’s new Introduction demonstrates the ongoing relevance of the topic and the charge to move away from an exclusive focus on NHST, along with new methods to help make significance testing more accessible to a wider body of researchers to improve our ability to make more accurate statistical inferences. Part 1 presents an overview of significance testing issues. The next part discusses the debate in which significance testing should be rejected or retained. The third part outlines various methods that may supplement significance testing procedures. Part 4 discusses Bayesian approaches and methods and the use of confidence intervals versus significance tests. The book concludes with philosophy of science perspectives. Rather than providing definitive prescriptions, the chapters are largely suggestive of general issues, concerns, and application guidelines. The editors allow readers to choose the best way to conduct hypothesis testing in their respective fields. For anyone doing research in the social sciences, this book is bound to become "must" reading. Ideal for use as a supplement for graduate courses in statistics or quantitative analysis taught in psychology, education, business, nursing, medicine, and the social sciences, the book also benefits independent researchers in the behavioral and social sciences and those who teach statistics.

Controversial Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials

Author : Shein-Chung Chow
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439849625
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Controversial Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials written by Shein-Chung Chow and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In clinical trial practice, controversial statistical issues inevitably occur regardless of the compliance with good statistical practice and good clinical practice. But by identifying the causes of the issues and correcting them, the study objectives of clinical trials can be better achieved. Controversial Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials covers commonly encountered controversial statistical issues in clinical trials and, whenever possible, makes recommendations to resolve these problems. The book focuses on issues occurring at various stages of clinical research and development, including early-phase clinical development (such as bioavailability/bioequivalence), bench-to-bedside translational research, and late-phase clinical development. Numerous examples illustrate the impact of these issues on the evaluation of the safety and efficacy of the test treatment under investigation. The author also offers recommendations regarding possible resolutions of the problems. Written by one of the preeminent experts in the field, this book provides a useful desk reference and state-of-the art examination of problematic issues in clinical trials for scientists in the pharmaceutical industry, medical/statistical reviewers in government regulatory agencies, and researchers and students in academia.

The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Psychology, Vol. 1

Author : Todd D. Little
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199934878
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Psychology, Vol. 1 written by Todd D. Little and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Psychology provides an accessible and comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-science and a one-stop source for learning and reviewing current best-practices in a quantitative methods across the social, behavioral, and educational sciences.

The Philosophy of Quantitative Methods

Author : Brian D. Haig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190222050
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Quantitative Methods written by Brian D. Haig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book undertakes a philosophical examination of a number of important quantitative research methods in the behavioral sciences, in order to overcome the shallow and uncritical understanding that is typically provided by textbooks. The methods are: exploratory data analysis, statistical significance testing, Bayesian confirmation theory and statistics, meta-analysis, and exploratory factor analysis. Further readings are provided to extend the readers' understanding"--

The Significance Test Controversy

Author : Denton E. Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (844 download)

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Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests

Author : Frank S Corotto
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323952852
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests written by Frank S Corotto and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few students sitting in their introductory statistics class learn that they are being taught the product of a misguided effort to combine two methods into one. Few students learn that some think the method they are being taught should be banned. Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests: A Practitioner’s Handbook follows one of the two methods that were combined: the approach championed by Ronald Fisher. Fisher’s method is simple, intuitive, and immune to criticism. Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests is also a user-friendly handbook meant for practitioners. Rather than overwhelming the reader with endless mathematical operations that are rarely performed by hand, the author of Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests emphasizes concepts and reasoning. In Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests, the author explains what is accomplished by testing null hypotheses—and what is not. The author explains the misconceptions that concern null hypothesis testing. He explains why confidence intervals show the results of null hypothesis tests, performed backwards. Most importantly, the author explains the Big Secret. Many—some say all—null hypotheses must be false. But authorities tell us we should test false null hypotheses anyway to determine the direction of a difference that we know must be there (a topic unrelated to so-called one-tailed tests). In Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests, the author explains how to control how often we get the direction wrong (it is not half of alpha) and commit a Type III (or Type S) error. Offers a user-friendly book, meant for the practitioner, not a comprehensive statistics book Based on the primary literature, not other books Emphasizes the importance of testing null hypotheses to decide upon direction, a topic unrelated to so-called one-tailed tests Covers all the concepts behind null hypothesis testing as it is conventionally understood, while emphasizing a superior method Covers everything the author spent 32 years explaining to others: the debate over correcting for multiple comparisons, the need for factorial analysis, the advantages and dangers of repeated measures, and more Explains that, if we test for direction, we are practicing an unappreciated and unnamed method of inference

Teaching Statistical Concepts

Author : Anne Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317898095
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Statistical Concepts written by Anne Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing recognition that statistics should be part of the core curriculum for the compulsory schooling of all children, leading to a now urgent need for teachers to be trained in both statistical content and appropriate teaching methods. This book lays the foundation for teacher's responses to these changes, exploring how best to teach those applied skills which are now seen to be a more relevant part of the content of statistical courses.

Controversial Therapies for Developmental Disabilities

Author : John W. Jacobson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1135636117
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Controversial Therapies for Developmental Disabilities written by John W. Jacobson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What approaches to early intervention, education, therapy, and remediation really help those with mental retardation and developmental disabilities improve their functioning and adaptation? This book brings together leading behavioral scientists and practitioners to focus light on the major controversies surrounding such questions.

Improving Inquiry in Social Science

Author : Richard E. Snow
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805807486
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Improving Inquiry in Social Science written by Richard E. Snow and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Quantitative Methods in Tourism

Author : Rodolfo Baggio
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 184541621X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Quantitative Methods in Tourism written by Rodolfo Baggio and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised second edition, Baggio and Klobas build upon the work of their previous volume, offering a presentation of quantitative research methods for tourism researchers. This accessible and rigorous guide goes beyond the approaches usually covered in introductory textbooks on quantitative methods to consider useful techniques for statistical inquiry into tourism matters of all but the most econometrically complex kind. The first part of the book concerns common issues in statistical analysis of data and the most widely-used techniques, while the second part describes and discusses several newer and less common approaches to data analysis that are valuable for tourism researchers and analysts. Updates to the second edition include: • a new chapter on “Big Data” • consideration of data screening and cleaning • the use of similarity and diversity indexes for comparing samples • observations about the partial least squares (PLS) approach to path modelling • a new section on multi-group structural equation modelling • a new section on common method variance and its treatment • revised and updated section on software • fully updated references and examples

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods

Author : Mike Allen
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483381420
Total Pages : 2013 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods written by Mike Allen and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 2013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication research is evolving and changing in a world of online journals, open-access, and new ways of obtaining data and conducting experiments via the Internet. Although there are generic encyclopedias describing basic social science research methodologies in general, until now there has been no comprehensive A-to-Z reference work exploring methods specific to communication and media studies. Our entries, authored by key figures in the field, focus on special considerations when applied specifically to communication research, accompanied by engaging examples from the literature of communication, journalism, and media studies. Entries cover every step of the research process, from the creative development of research topics and questions to literature reviews, selection of best methods (whether quantitative, qualitative, or mixed) for analyzing research results and publishing research findings, whether in traditional media or via new media outlets. In addition to expected entries covering the basics of theories and methods traditionally used in communication research, other entries discuss important trends influencing the future of that research, including contemporary practical issues students will face in communication professions, the influences of globalization on research, use of new recording technologies in fieldwork, and the challenges and opportunities related to studying online multi-media environments. Email, texting, cellphone video, and blogging are shown not only as topics of research but also as means of collecting and analyzing data. Still other entries delve into considerations of accountability, copyright, confidentiality, data ownership and security, privacy, and other aspects of conducting an ethical research program. Features: 652 signed entries are contained in an authoritative work spanning four volumes available in choice of electronic or print formats. Although organized A-to-Z, front matter includes a Reader’s Guide grouping entries thematically to help students interested in a specific aspect of communication research to more easily locate directly related entries. Back matter includes a Chronology of the development of the field of communication research; a Resource Guide to classic books, journals, and associations; a Glossary introducing the terminology of the field; and a detailed Index. Entries conclude with References/Further Readings and Cross-References to related entries to guide students further in their research journeys. The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross-References combine to provide robust search-and-browse in the e-version.

Air Force Academy

Author : Mark E. Gebicke
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788113356
Total Pages : 66 pages
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Download or read book Air Force Academy written by Mark E. Gebicke and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews treatment of women and minorities at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Specifically, the report addresses (1) differences in performance indicators between men and women and between whites and minorities; (2) cadets' perceptions of the fairness of the treatment that female and minority cadets receive, and (3) actions the Academy has taken to enhance the success of women and minorities at the Academy. 20 charts and tables.

Testing Scientific Theories

Author : John Earman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816611599
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Testing Scientific Theories written by John Earman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testing Scientific Theories was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Since much of a scientist's work consists of constructing arguments to show how experiments and observation bear on a particular theory, the methodologies of theory testing and their philosophical underpinnings are of vital concern to philosophers of science. Confirmation of scientific theories is the topic of Clark Glymour's important book Theory and Evidence,published in 1980. His negative thesis is that the two most widely discussed accounts of the methodology of theory testing - hypothetico-deductivism and Bayesianism - are flawed. The issues Glymour raises and his alternative "bootstrapping" method provided the focus for a conference sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science and for this book. As editor John Earman says in his preface, the papers presented in Testing Scientific Theories germinate so many new ideas that philosophers of science will reap the harvest for years to come. Topics covered include a discussion of Glymour's bootstrapping theory of confirmation, the Bayesian perspective and the problems of old evidence, evidence and explanation, historical case studies, alternative views on testing theories, and testing particular theories, including psychoanalytic hypotheses and hypotheses about the completeness of the fossil record.

Controversial Therapies for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities

Author : Richard M. Foxx
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317623827
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Controversial Therapies for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities written by Richard M. Foxx and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest and most complex human services systems in history has evolved to address the needs of people with autism and intellectual disabilities, yet important questions remain for many professionals, administrators, and parents. What approaches to early intervention, education, treatment, therapy, and remediation really help those with autism and other intellectual disabilities improve their functioning and adaptation? Alternatively, what approaches represent wastes of time, effort, and resources? Controversial Therapies for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities, 2nd Edition brings together leading behavioral scientists and practitioners to shed much-needed light on the major controversies surrounding these questions. Expert authors review the origins, perpetuation, and resistance to scrutiny of questionable practices, and offer a clear rationale for appraising the quality of various services. The second edition of Controversial Therapies for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities has been fully revised and updated and includes entirely new chapters on psychology fads, why applied behavioral analysis is not a fad, rapid prompting, relationship therapies, the gluten-free, casein-free diet, evidence based practices, state government regulation of behavioral treatment, teaching ethics, and a parents’ primer for autism treatments.