Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition
Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition
by Rand Wilcox
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1498796788 | 731 Pages | PDF,EPUB | 24.33 MB
by Rand Wilcox
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1498796788 | 731 Pages | PDF,EPUB | 24.33 MB
Requiring no prior training, Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides a two-semester, graduate-level introduction to basic statistical techniques that takes into account recent advances and insights that are typically ignored in an introductory course.
Hundreds of journal articles make it clear that basic techniques, routinely taught and used, can perform poorly when dealing with skewed distributions, outliers, heteroscedasticity (unequal variances) and curvature. Methods for dealing with these concerns have been derived and can provide a deeper, more accurate and more nuanced understanding of data. A conceptual basis is provided for understanding when and why standard methods can have poor power and yield misleading measures of effect size. Modern techniques for dealing with known concerns are described and illustrated.