Reading Statistics and Research docx

[...]... and full-length research reports are presented each year in thousands of technical journals and at meetings of countless international, national, regional, and local professional associations Summaries of such studies make their way into newspaper and magazine stories, television and radio news programs, and informal conversations among coworkers, family members, and friends Computer availability and. .. understand statistical tables and figures, (3) know what specific research question(s) can be answered by each of a variety of statistical procedures, (4) remain aware of what can and cannot be accomplished when someone sets up and tests one or more null hypotheses, (5) detect the misuse of statistics, (6) distinguish between good and poor research designs, and (7) feel confident when working with research. .. spur researchers into looking far and wide when conducting their literature reviews and establishing communication links with others who share common research interests Moreover, I hope these excerpts will help increase the respect researchers have for their international colleagues An Expanded and Updated Companion Website The book’s website (http://www.ReadingStats.com) has been updated and expanded... groups: those who conduct their own research investigations and those who are the recipients of research- based claims I have tried to keep both groups in mind while working on this revision project I hope members of both groups will benefit from this edition’s textual discussion of statistics and research design, the many excerpts taken from published research reports, and the review questions for each... discerning consumer of research findings and research claims Such individuals, located on the receiving end of research summaries, cannot be competent consumers of what they read or hear unless they can both understand and evaluate the investigations being discussed Such skills are needed because (1) trustworthy research conclusions come only from those studies characterized by a sound design and a careful analysis... in a research base made of sand If applied researchers could more adequately critique the studies cited within their own literature reviews, they also would be able to apply such knowledge to their own investigations The result would be better designed studies containing more appropriate statistical analyses leading to more justifiable conclusions and claims This edition of Reading Statistics and Research. .. Reference to these techniques appears regularly in the research reports presented orally at professional meetings and in print within technical journals In this new edition, Chapter 19 deals with multivariate analysis of variance and covariance (MANOVA and MANCOVA), Chapter 20 is focused on exploratory and confirmatory factory analysis (EFA and CFA), and Chapter 21 covers structural equation modeling (SEM)... endeavors is contingent on his or her ability to understand and evaluate research reports that are purely statistical in nature As I pointed out in the previous edition, Careful mixed-methods researchers do things in the same way, in the quantitative parts of their studies, as do researchers who collect only numerical information and use only statistics to analyze their data Preface xxi It is my hope... Image, Creativity Research Journal, Anti-Aging Medicine, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Harm Reduction Journal, Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, International Journal of Health Geographics, Alcohol and Alcoholism, Journal of Sex Research, Community College Review, and Computers in Human Behavior Unless people have the ability to decipher and critique research in a multidisciplinary... collected, analyzed, summarized, or interpreted Differences between the Fifth and Sixth Editions In an effort to assist readers to better decipher and critique research reports, I have done my best to update, expand, and in other ways improve this edition and make it superior to the previous edition Several of these changes are quite minor and need not be discussed There are, however, six important ways in which . conclusions and claims. This edition of Reading Statistics and Research is targeted at two groups: those who conduct their own research investigations and those who are the recipi- ents of research- based. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Huck, Schuyler W. Reading statistics and research. — 6th ed. / Schuyler W. Huck p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-217863-1 ISBN-10: 0-13-217863-X 1. Statistics. 2. Research. 3. Experimental design someone sets up and tests one or more null hypotheses, (5) detect the misuse of statistics, (6) distinguish between good and poor research designs, and (7) feel confident when working with research reports. The