Essentials of behavioral research : methods and data analysis /

Rosenthal, Robert, 1933-

Essentials of behavioral research : methods and data analysis / Essentials of behavioural research Essentials of behavioural research : Methods and data analysis Robert Rosenthal, Ralph L. Rosnow. - Third edition. - xxi, 842 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 765-814) and index.

Conceptual and Ethical Foundations -- The Spirit of Behavioral Research -- Contexts of Discovery and Justification -- Ethical Considerations, Dilemmas, and Guidelines -- Operationalization and Measurement of Dependent Variables -- Reliability and Validity of Measurements -- Observations, Judgments, and Composite Variables -- Questionnaires, Interviews, and Diaries -- The Logic of Research Designs -- Randomized Controlled Experiments and Causal Inference -- Nonrandomized Research and Functional Relationships -- Randomly and Nonrandomly Selected Sampling Units -- Fundamentals of Data Analysis -- Describing, Displaying, and Exploring Data -- Correlation -- Statistical Power and Effect Size Revisited -- One-Way Designs -- Comparing Means by Standard t Tests -- t Tests for Nonindependent Samples Analysis of Variance and the F Test -- One-Way Contrast Analyses -- Factorial Designs -- Factorial Analysis of Variance -- Interaction Effects in Analysis of Variance -- Repeated Measures in Analysis of Variance -- Additional Topics in Data Analysis -- Significance Testing and Association in Tables of Counts -- Multivariate Data Analysis -- Meta-Analysis: Comparing and Combining Research Results -- Appendices -- List of Numbered Equations -- Statistical Tables. Part I. 1. 2. 3. Part II. 4. 5. 6. Part III. 7. 8. 9. Part IV. 10. 11. 12. Part V. 13. 14. 15. Part VI. 16. 17. 18. Part VII. 19. 20. 21. Part VIII. A. B.

"This classic advanced undergraduate/graduate text in research methods requires statistics as a prerequisite. The first half of the text concentrates on research methods and the second half introduces students to advanced statistical procedures."--Publisher description.

0073531960 9780073531960

2006017236


Psychology--Research--Methodology

BF76.5 / .R629 2008

300.72

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