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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.

What If There Were No Significance Tests?

Author : Lisa L. Harlow
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317843622
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book What If There Were No Significance Tests? written by Lisa L. Harlow and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of a spirited debate stimulated by a recent meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. Although the viewpoints span a range of perspectives, the overriding theme that emerges states that significance testing may still be useful if supplemented with some or all of the following -- Bayesian logic, caution, confidence intervals, effect sizes and power, other goodness of approximation measures, replication and meta-analysis, sound reasoning, and theory appraisal and corroboration. The book is organized into five general areas. The first presents an overview of significance testing issues that sythesizes the highlights of the remainder of the book. The next discusses the debate in which significance testing should be rejected or retained. The third outlines various methods that may supplement current significance testing procedures. The fourth discusses Bayesian approaches and methods and the use of confidence intervals versus significance tests. The last presents the 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.

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 Lancet

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Becoming a Behavioral Science Researcher

Author : Rex B. Kline
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Behavioral Science Researcher written by Rex B. Kline and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students and beginning researchers often discover that their introductory statistics and methods courses have not fully equipped them to plan and execute their own behavioral research studies. This indispensable book bridges the gap between coursework and conducting independent research. With clarity and wit, the author helps the reader build needed skills to formulate a precise, meaningful research question; understand the pros and cons of widely used research designs and analysis options; correctly interpret the outcomes of statistical tests; make informed measurement choices for a particular study; manage the practical aspects of data screening and preparation; and craft effective journal articles, oral presentations, and posters. Including annotated examples and recommended readings, most chapters feature theoretical and computer-based exercises; an answer appendix at the back of the book allows readers to check their work.

Using Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management

Author : Graham B. McBride
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Using Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management written by Graham B. McBride and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STATISTICS IN PRACTICE A practical exploration of alternative approaches to analyzing water-related environmental issues Written by an experienced environmentalist and recognized expert in the field, this text is designed to help water resource managers and scientists to formulate, implement, and interpret more effective methods of water quality management. After presenting the basic foundation for using statistical methods in water resource management, including the use of appropriate hypothesis test procedures and some rapid calculation procedures, the author offers a range of practical problems and solutions on environmental topics that often arise, but are not generally covered. These include: Formulating water quality standards Determining compliance with standards MPNs and microbiology Water-related, human health risk modeling Trends, impacts, concordance, and detection limits In order to promote awareness of alternative approaches to analyzing data, both frequentist and Bayesian, statistical methods are contrasted in terms of their applicability to various environmental issues. Each chapter ends with a number of set problems for which full answers are provided. The book also encourages discussion between technical staff and management before embarking on statistical studies.

Bias in Mental Testing

Author : Arthur Robert Jensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Ecology

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Total Pages : 832 pages
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Canadian Journal of Forest Research

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
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American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy

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Total Pages : 1014 pages
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Dissertation Abstracts International

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Total Pages : 556 pages
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Educational Quest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Determining the Future Mobility Needs of the Elderly

Author : Martin Wachs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Orientation: Sensory Basis

Author : Helmut E. Adler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Technical Report

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Total Pages : 714 pages
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Selecting Research Methods: Methods to sample, recruit, and assign cases

Author : W. Paul Vogt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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An Exploratory Study to Investigate the Effect of Figurative Language on the Comprehension of Expository Text

Author : Elfriede F. Hofer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
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