Beyond Significance Testing

Statistics Reform in the Behavioral Sciences

Rex B. Kline (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

348 Seiten

2013 | 2nd edition
American Psychological Association (Verlag)
978-1-4338-1278-1 (ISBN)

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This book reviews the controversy about significance testing, which has now crossed various disciplines as diverse as psychology, ecology, commerce, education, and biology, among others. It also introduces readers to alternative methods, especially effect size estimation (at both the group and case levels) and interval estimation (confidence intervals) in comparative studies.

This accessibly written book reviews the controversy about significance testing, which has now crossed various disciplines as diverse as psychology, ecology, commerce, education, and biology, among others. It also introduces readers to alternative methods, especially effect size estimation (at both the group and case levels) and interval estimation (confidence intervals) in comparative studies. Basics of bootstrapping and Bayesian estimation are also considered.

Research examples from substance abuse, education, learning, and other areas illustrate how to apply these methods.

A companion website (www.apa.org/books/resources/kline) promotes learning by providing chapter exercises and sample answers, downloadable raw data files for many research examples, and links to other useful websites.

Rex B. Kline, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology. His areas of research and writing include the psychometric evaluation of cognitive abilities, cognitive and scholastic assessment of children, structural equation modeling, the training of behavioral science researchers, and usability engineering in computer science. He has published six books and nine chapters in these areas.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Fundamental Concepts

Changing Times
Sampling and Estimation
Logic and Illogic of Significance Testing
Cognitive Distortions in Significance Testing

II. Effect Size Estimation in Comparative Studies

Continuous Outcomes
Categorical Outcomes
Single-Factor Designs
Multifactor Designs

III. Alternatives to Significance Testing

Replication and Meta-Analysis
Bayesian Estimation and Best Practices Summary

References

Index

About the Author

Verlagsort	Washington DC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-4338-1278-9 / 1433812789
ISBN-13	978-1-4338-1278-1 / 9781433812781
Zustand	Neuware