Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings

By George A. Morgan, Jeffrey A. Gliner, Robert J. Harmon

Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles, especially given today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. This...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5332-2 (Psychology Press)

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Research Methods

By Steve Chapman, Patrick Mcneill

Since its first edition in 1985, Patrick McNeill's Research Methods has become a classic introductory text for students of sociology at A level and in...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34076-2 (Routledge)

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Effect Sizes for Research

A Broad Practical Approach

By Robert J. Grissom, John J. Kim

The goal of this book is to inform a broad readership about a variety of measures and estimators of effect sizes for research, their proper...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-5014-7 (Psychology Press)

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Statistics in Plain English

By Timothy C. Urdan

Statistics in Plain English, 2/e provides a brief, simple overview of statistics to help readers gain a better understanding of how statistics work and how...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5241-7 (Psychology Press)

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The Essence of Multivariate Thinking

Basic Themes and Methods

By Lisa L. Harlow

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking is intended to make multivariate statistics more accessible to a wide audience. To encourage a more thorough understanding of multivariate...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-3730-8 (Psychology Press)

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New Developments in Categorical Data Analysis for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Edited by L. Andries van der Ark, Marcel A. Croon, Klaas Sijtsma

Categorical data are quantified as either nominal variables--distinguishing different groups, for example, based on socio-economic status, education, and political persuasion--or ordinal variables--distinguishing levels of interest,...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-4728-4 (Psychology Press)

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Ethnographic Methods

By Karen O'Reilly

Ethnography isn't a prescribed set of methods - it's a methodology that acknowledges the complexity of human experience and the need to research it by...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32156-3 (Routledge)

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Making Realism Work

Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research

Edited by Bob Carter, Caroline New

In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34771-6 (Routledge)

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After Method

Mess in Social Science Research

By John Law

John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant....

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34175-2 (Routledge)

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Cognition and Chance

The Psychology of Probabilistic Reasoning

By Raymond S. Nickerson

Lack of ability to think probabilistically makes one prone to a variety of irrational fears and vulnerable to scams designed to exploit probabilistic naiveté, impairs...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4899-1 (Psychology Press)

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