Your Statistical Consultant

Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions
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Rae R. Newton - Fielding Graduate University, USA
Kjell Erik Rudestam - Fielding Graduate University, USA
Your Statistical Consultant
September 2012 | 384 pages | Sage US
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How do you bridge the gap between what you learned in your statistics course and the questions you want to answer in your real-world research? Oriented towards distinct questions in a “How do I?” or “When should I?” format, Your Statistical Consultant is the equivalent of the expert colleague down the hall who fields questions about describing, explaining, and making recommendations regarding thorny or confusing statistical issues. The book serves as a compendium of statistical knowledge, both theoretical and applied, that addresses the questions most frequently asked by students, researchers and instructors. Written to be responsive to a wide range of inquiries and levels of expertise, the book is flexibly organized so readers can either read it sequentially or turn directly to the sections that correspond to their concerns.

Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started With Statistical Analysis: Where Do I Obtain Data and How Do I Prepare Data for Statistical Analysis?

Chapter 1. Getting Started With Statistical Analysis: Where Do I Obtain Data and How Do I Prepare Data for Statistical Analysis?

Chapter 2. How Do I Examine Data Prior to Analysis?

Chapter 2. How Do I Examine Data Prior to Analysis?

Chapter 3. Traditional Approaches to Statistical Analysis and the Logic of Statistical Inference

Chapter 3. Traditional Approaches to Statistical Analysis and the Logic of Statistical Inference

Chapter 4. Rethinking Traditional Paradigms: Power, Effect Size, and Hypothesis Testing Alternatives

Chapter 4. Rethinking Traditional Paradigms: Power, Effect Size, and Hypothesis Testing Alternatives

Chapter 5. What Are the Assumptions of Statistical Testing?

Chapter 5. What Are the Assumptions of Statistical Testing?

Chapter 6. An Introduction to Statistical Models: Explaining Relationship Patterns

Chapter 6. An Introduction to Statistical Models: Explaining Relationship Patterns

Chapter 7. How Do I Select the Appropriate Statistical Test?

Chapter 7. How Do I Select the Appropriate Statistical Test?

Chapter 8. How Do I Deal With Non-Normality, Missing Values, and Outliers?

Chapter 8. How Do I Deal With Non-Normality, Missing Values, and Outliers?

Chapter 9. Types of Variables and Their Treatment in Statistical Analysis

Chapter 9. Types of Variables and Their Treatment in Statistical Analysis

Chapter 10. Questions about Analysis of Variance

Chapter 10. Questions about Analysis of Variance

Chapter 11. Questions abuot Multiple Regression Analysis

Chapter 11. Questions abuot Multiple Regression Analysis

Chapter 12. The Bigger Picture

Chapter 12. The Bigger Picture

Additional materials

Description

How do you bridge the gap between what you learned in your statistics course and the questions you want to answer in your real-world research? Oriented towards distinct questions in a “How do I?” or “When should I?” format, Your Statistical Consultant is the equivalent of the expert colleague down the hall who fields questions about describing, explaining, and making recommendations regarding thorny or confusing statistical issues. The book serves as a compendium of statistical knowledge, both theoretical and applied, that addresses the questions most frequently asked by students, researchers and instructors. Written to be responsive to a wide range of inquiries and levels of expertise, the book is flexibly organized so readers can either read it sequentially or turn directly to the sections that correspond to their concerns.

Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started With Statistical Analysis: Where Do I Obtain Data and How Do I Prepare Data for Statistical Analysis?

Chapter 1. Getting Started With Statistical Analysis: Where Do I Obtain Data and How Do I Prepare Data for Statistical Analysis?

Chapter 2. How Do I Examine Data Prior to Analysis?

Chapter 2. How Do I Examine Data Prior to Analysis?

Chapter 3. Traditional Approaches to Statistical Analysis and the Logic of Statistical Inference

Chapter 3. Traditional Approaches to Statistical Analysis and the Logic of Statistical Inference

Chapter 4. Rethinking Traditional Paradigms: Power, Effect Size, and Hypothesis Testing Alternatives

Chapter 4. Rethinking Traditional Paradigms: Power, Effect Size, and Hypothesis Testing Alternatives

Chapter 5. What Are the Assumptions of Statistical Testing?

Chapter 5. What Are the Assumptions of Statistical Testing?

Chapter 6. An Introduction to Statistical Models: Explaining Relationship Patterns

Chapter 6. An Introduction to Statistical Models: Explaining Relationship Patterns

Chapter 7. How Do I Select the Appropriate Statistical Test?

Chapter 7. How Do I Select the Appropriate Statistical Test?

Chapter 8. How Do I Deal With Non-Normality, Missing Values, and Outliers?

Chapter 8. How Do I Deal With Non-Normality, Missing Values, and Outliers?

Chapter 9. Types of Variables and Their Treatment in Statistical Analysis

Chapter 9. Types of Variables and Their Treatment in Statistical Analysis

Chapter 10. Questions about Analysis of Variance

Chapter 10. Questions about Analysis of Variance

Chapter 11. Questions abuot Multiple Regression Analysis

Chapter 11. Questions abuot Multiple Regression Analysis

Chapter 12. The Bigger Picture

Chapter 12. The Bigger Picture

Additional materials

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Your Statistical Consultant

Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions


September 2012 | 384 pages | Sage US

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How do you bridge the gap between what you learned in your statistics course and the questions you want to answer in your real-world research? Oriented towards distinct questions in a “How do I?” or “When should I?” format, Your Statistical Consultant is the equivalent of the expert colleague down the hall who fields questions about describing, explaining, and making recommendations regarding thorny or confusing statistical issues. The book serves as a compendium of statistical knowledge, both theoretical and applied, that addresses the questions most frequently asked by students, researchers and instructors. Written to be responsive to a wide range of inquiries and levels of expertise, the book is flexibly organized so readers can either read it sequentially or turn directly to the sections that correspond to their concerns.


Table Of Contents:

  • Chapter 1. Getting Started With Statistical Analysis: Where Do I Obtain Data and How Do I Prepare Data for Statistical Analysis?
  • Chapter 2. How Do I Examine Data Prior to Analysis?
  • Chapter 3. Traditional Approaches to Statistical Analysis and the Logic of Statistical Inference
  • Chapter 4. Rethinking Traditional Paradigms: Power, Effect Size, and Hypothesis Testing Alternatives
  • Chapter 5. What Are the Assumptions of Statistical Testing?
  • Chapter 6. An Introduction to Statistical Models: Explaining Relationship Patterns
  • Chapter 7. How Do I Select the Appropriate Statistical Test?
  • Chapter 8. How Do I Deal With Non-Normality, Missing Values, and Outliers?
  • Chapter 9. Types of Variables and Their Treatment in Statistical Analysis
  • Chapter 10. Questions about Analysis of Variance
  • Chapter 11. Questions abuot Multiple Regression Analysis
  • Chapter 12. The Bigger Picture

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