A Guide for the Statistically Perplexed : : Selected Readings for Clinical Researchers /

A Guide for the Statistically Perplexed : : Selected Readings for Clinical Researchers / / David L. Streiner, Canadian Psychiatric Association.

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Do statistics-heavy research papers give you a headache? Are you baffled by bias, confused by correlation, or flummoxed by F-tests? A Guide for the Statistically Perplexed is here to help! This book is designed to assist students, clinicians, and researchers in becoming familiar with statistical and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Streiner, David L.,
Canadian Psychiatric Association, ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2012
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (396 p.) :; 50 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Do You See What I Mean? Indices of Central Tendency
  • 2 Maintaining Standards: Differences between the Standard Deviation and Standard Error and When to Use Each
  • 3 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Heartbreak of Dichotomizing Continuous Data
  • 4 Pick a Number: Sample Size and Power in Psychiatric Research
  • 5 Speaking Graphically: An Introduction to Some Newer Graphing Techniques
  • 6 Let Me Count the Ways: Measuring Incidence, Prevalence, and Impact in Epidemiological Studies
  • 7 Risky Business: Making Sense of Estimates of Risk
  • 8 The Case of the Missing Data: Methods of Dealing with Dropouts and Other Research Vagaries
  • 9 An Introduction to Multivariate Statistics
  • 10 Figuring Out Factors: The Use and Misuse of Factor Analysis
  • 11 Regression in the Service of the Superego: The Dos and Don'ts of Stepwise Multiple Regression
  • 12 Regression towards the Mean: Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
  • 13 Stayin' Alive: An Introduction to Survival Analysis
  • 14 Life after Chi-squared: An Introduction to Log-Linear Analysis
  • 15 Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Handling of Confounders in Research
  • 16 Finding Our Way: An Introduction to Path Analysis
  • 17 Building a Better Model: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling
  • 18 Unicorns Do Exist: A Tutorial on "Proving" the Null Hypothesis
  • 19 Reconcilable Differences: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
  • 20 Thinking Small: Research Designs Appropriate for Clinical Practice
  • 21 The Two "E's" of Research: Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials
  • 22 A Checklist for Evaluating the Usefulness of Rating Scales
  • 23 Learning How to Differ: Agreement and Reliability Statistics
  • 24 What's under the ROC? An Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
  • 25 Measure for Measure: New Developments in Measurement and Item Response Theory
  • 26 Putting It All Together: Using Meta-Analysis in Psychiatric Research
  • 27 "While you're up, get me a grant": A Guide to Grant Application Writing
  • 28 A Short Cut to Rejection: How Not to Write the Results Section of a Paper
  • Index

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