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Clark-Carter, David,

Quantitative psychological research : the complete student's companion / David Clark-Carter. - 4th Edition. - pages cm - Revised edition of the author's Quantitative psychological research, 2009. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction;
The methods used in psychological research;
Choice of topic, measures and research design;
The preliminary stages of research;
Variables and the validity of research designs;
Research designs and their internal validity;
Methods;
Asking questions i: interviews and surveys;
Asking questions ii: measuring attitudes and meaning;
Observation and content analysis;
Data and analysis;
Scales of measurement;
Summarising and describing data;
Going beyond description;
Samples and populations;
Analysis of differences between a single sample and a population;
Effect size and power;
Parametric and non-parametric tests;
Analysis of differences between two levels of an independent variable;
Preliminary analysis of designs with one independent variable with more than two levels;
Analysis of designs with more than one independent variable;
Subsequent analysis after anova or ?2
Analysis of relationships i: correlation;
Analysis of relationships ii: regression;
Analysis of relationships iii: logistic regression;
Analysis of covariance (ancova);
Screening data ;
Exploratory factor analysis;
Multivariate analysis;
Meta-analysis;
Bayesian statistics;
Sharing the results;
Reporting research;
Appendixes;
References;
Glossary of symbols;
Author index;
Subject index.

ISBN: 9781138226173 (hardback) 9781138226180 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2018029146

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychology--Research--Methodology--Textbooks.

LC Class. No.: BF76.5 / .C53 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 150.72