ABSTRACT
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 book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis. Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings features:
*short, independent, chapters that do not have to be read in order;
*a guide to understanding why a particular statistic was selected;
*an emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency;
*numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material; and
*methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice.
This book is intended for practitioners and students in psychology, education, counseling, mental and allied health, nursing, and medicine, and as a text for courses on understanding research methods and statistics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|28 pages
Introductory Chapters
part II|37 pages
Variables and Their Measurement
part III|44 pages
Research Approaches, Questions, And Designs
part IV|29 pages
Introduction To The Evaluation Of Methods And Designs
part V|29 pages
Introduction To Inferential Statistics And Their Interpretation
chapter Chapter 22|11 pages
Using Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals to Interpret the Results of a Statistical Test
part VI|84 pages
Selection And Interpretation Of Specific Statistics
chapter Chapter 33|9 pages
Interpretation of Alpha, Factor Analysis, and Principal Components Analysis
part VII|27 pages
Application ChapterS
part VIII|39 pages
Evaluation Of Research Validity