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Essentials of behavioral research : methods and data analysis

Title
Essentials of behavioral research : methods and data analysis / Robert Rosenthal, Ralph L. Rosnow.
Author
Rosenthal, Robert, 1933-2024
Publication
New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1991.

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Additional Authors
Rosnow, Ralph L.
Description
xviii, 692 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
McGraw-Hill series in psychology
Uniform Title
McGraw-Hill series in psychology
Subject
  • Psychology > Research > Methodology
  • Human behavior
  • Statistics
  • Behavior
  • Research Design
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Psychologie > Recherche > Méthodologie
  • Comportement humain
  • Statistiques
  • Statistique
  • human behavior
  • statistics
  • Statistics
  • Human behavior
  • Psychology > Research > Methodology
  • Methode
  • Verhaltensforschung
  • Sociale wetenschappen
  • Wetenschappelijke technieken
  • Data-analyse
  • Social sciences > Research > Methodology
  • Behavioural sciences Research
Genre/Form
  • Statistics
  • Statistics.
  • Statistiques.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-663) and indexes.
Contents
Empirical inquiry and decision criteria. The nature of behavioral research -- Development and testing of research ideas -- Standards of reliability and validity -- Nature and limitations of control procedures. Structure and logic of experimental designs -- Models of quasi-experimental designs -- Subject-experimenter artifacts and their control -- Data collection and measurement procedures. Further strategies for gathering data -- Systematic observation, unobstrusive measures, and rating formats -- Interviews, questionnaires, and self-recorded diaries -- Basic issues in the implementation of research. Considerations in the selection of subjects and stimuli -- Ethics and values in human subject research -- Systematic pluralism and statistical data analysis -- Fundamentals of data analysis. Describing and displaying data -- Correlation -- Comparing means -- Beyond one-way analysis of variance. Factorial design of experiments -- Interaction effects -- Repeated-measures designs -- Power and focused analyses. Assessing and increasing power -- Blocking and the increase of power -- Contrast analysis: an introduction -- Additional topics in data analysis. Meta-analysis: comparing and combining results -- Chi-square and the analysis of tables -- Multivariate procedures -- Appendixes. Writing literature reviews and original-study papers -- Statistical tables.
ISBN
  • 0070539294
  • 9780070539297
  • 0071009469
  • 9780071009461
LCCN
90013424
OCLC
  • ocm22422702
  • 22422702
  • SCSB-1260874
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library