Quantitative Psychological Research: A Student's HandbookQuantitative Psychological Research: A Student's Handbook is a thoroughly revised and updated version of David Clark-Carter's extremely successful Doing Quantitative Psychological Research: From Design to Report. This comprehensive handbook verses the reader in a wide range of statistical tools in order to ensure that quantitative research and the analysis of its findings go beyond mere description towards sound hypothesis formulation and testing. The entire research process is covered in detail, from selection of research design through to analysis and presentation of results. Core topics examined include: * variables and the validity of research designs * summarizing and describing data: numerous practical examples are given of both graphical and numerical methods * reporting research both verbally and in writing * univarate and bi-varate statistics: multivariate analysis and meta-analysis also benefit from dedicated chapters. This catch-all reference book will prove invaluable to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, bringing clarity and reliability to each stage of the quantitative research process. |
Contents
1 HE METHODS USED IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH | 3 |
PART 2 Choice of topic measures and research design | 19 |
2 HE PRELIMINARY STAGES OF RESEARCH | 21 |
3 VARIABLES AND THE VALIDITY OF RESEARCH DESIGNS | 36 |
4 RESEARCH DESIGNS AND THEIR INTERNAL VALIDITY | 48 |
PART 3 Methods | 67 |
INTERVIEWS AND SURVEYS | 69 |
MEASURING ATTITUDES AND MEANING | 84 |
22 METAANALYSIS | 353 |
PART 5 Sharing the results | 363 |
23 REPORTING RESEARCH | 365 |
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS | 387 |
SAMPLING AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR PROPORTIONS | 397 |
COMPARING A SAMPLE WITH A POPULATION | 402 |
THE POWER OF A ONEGROUP ZTEST | 409 |
DA A TRANSFORMATION AND GOODNESSOFFIT TESTS | 412 |
7 OBSERVATION AND CONTENT ANALYSIS | 96 |
PART 4 Data and analysis | 105 |
8 SCALES OF MEASUREMENT | 107 |
9 SUMMARISING AND DESCRIBING DATA | 114 |
10 GOING BEYOND DESCRIPTION | 142 |
11 SAMPLES AND POPULATIONS | 152 |
12 ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A SINGLE SAMPLE AND A POPULATION | 163 |
13 EFFECT SIZE AND POWER | 180 |
14 PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC TESTS | 188 |
15 ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TWO LEVELS OF AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE | 198 |
16 PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF DESIGNS WITH ONE IV WITH MORE THAN TWO LEVELS | 222 |
17 ANALYSIS OF DESIGNS WITH MORE THAN ONE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE | 244 |
18 SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS AFTER ANOVA OR x2 | 261 |
CORRELATION | 287 |
REGRESSION | 317 |
21 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS | 341 |
SEEKING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TWO LEVELS OF AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE | 419 |
SEEKING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MORE THAN TWO LEVELS OF AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE | 441 |
ANALYSIS OF DESIGNS WITH MORE THAN ONE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE | 462 |
SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS AFTER ANOVA OR x2 | 477 |
CORRELATION AND RELIABILITY | 496 |
REGRESSION | 517 |
ITEM AND DISCRIMINATIVE ANALYSIS ON LIKERT SCALES | 533 |
METAANALYSIS | 535 |
PROBABILITY ABLES | 547 |
POWER ABLES | 582 |
MISCELLANEOUS TABLES | 618 |
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Glossary of symbols | 633 |
Author index | 635 |
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Other editions - View all
Quantitative Psychological Research: The Complete Student's Companion David Clark-Carter Limited preview - 2004 |
Quantitative Psychological Research: A Student's Handbook David Clark-Carter No preview available - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
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