Applied Statistical Analysis for Social & Health Sciences

Preface

 Chapter 1. Historical Background and Ways of Thinking

• Introduction
• Three Key Views
• Reasoning
• Measurement
• Error
• Research Questions
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• References

 Chapter 2. Descriptive Statistics with Visualizations

• Introduction
• Distributions—The Shape of the Data
• Core Descriptive Statistics—Continuous Variables
• Visualization—Univariate
• Summary
• Key Review Questions
• Equations
• References

Chapter 3. Probability—Briefly

• Introduction
• Probability
• Bayes’ Theorem
• Screening Tests
• Probability Distributions
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Formulas
• Key Review Questions
• Review Problems
• References

 Chapter 4. Estimation

• Introduction
• Brief Review of Samples
• Estimators
• P-Values, NHST, and Statistical Significance
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Formulas
• Review Questions
• References

Chapter 5. Means—Differences-Normal Distributed Data

• Introduction
• Assumptions
• One Sample Test
• Power
• Two Means—Different Groups
• Design and Sampling Processes
• Degrees of Freedom
• Mean Squares and F
• Example of an Independent Group Test with Means Sums of Squares
• Traditional Independent t-Test
• Two Related Means: Dependent t-Test
• Research Questions
• Example of the Dependent t-Test
• Bayes
• Conclusion
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Formulas
• Key Review Questions
• By Hand Practice Items
• Note on Unequal Variances Adjustment
• A Bit More on Sample Size
• References
• Appendix A
• Appendix B: F-Distribution Two-Tailed at the 05 Station

 Chapter 6. One-way ANOVA

• Introduction
• Variance
• One-way ANOVA Example
• After the Omnibus Test
• Bayes Analysis
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Review Questions
• By Hand Practice Data
• References

 Chapter 7. Correlation

• Introduction
• Correlation Example
• Other Correlation—Non-Continuous Data
• Correlation and Causality
• Part and Partial Correlation
• Non-Normality in Scatterplots
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Formulas
• Review Questions
• By Hand Calculations
• References
• Appendix A
• Appendix B: Correlation Table Two-Tailed

 Chapter 8. Linear Regression

• Introduction
• Assumptions
• Linear Regression-past Experience
• Regression Example
• Bivariate Regression and T-Tests
• Multiple Regression
• Example Multiple Regression
• Power
• Bayes
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Formulas
• Review
• By Hand Practice for Regression
• References

 Chapter 9. Factorial ANOVA, ANCOVA, and Repeated Measures ANOVA

• Introduction
• Factorial ANOVA
• 2×2 Factorial ANOVA Example
• 2×2 Factorial ANOVA Example By Hand
• Repeated Measures
• RM-ANOVA Example
• ANCOVA
• ANCOVA Example
• Some Important Other Designs
• Bayes Options
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Formulas
• Review Questions
• Small Data Sets
• References

Chapter 10. Non-Parametrics

• Introduction
• Chi-Square
• Example: 2×2 Chi-Square
• Example: 2×3 Chi-Square
• Two Groups—Non-Parametric t-Test
• Mann-Whitney Example
• Kruskal-Wallis
• Example Kruskal-Wallis
• Paired Data—Quick Note
• Example—Paired Data
• Residuals
• Measures of Association
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Formulas
• Review Questions
• By Hand Analysis Data
• References
• Appendix A
• Appendix B

Chapter 11. Logistic Regression

• Introduction
• Logistic Regression Example
• Very Technical Components
• Summary
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Formulas
• Review Questions
• References
• Appendix A
• Appendix B

 Chapter 12. Cleaning

• Introduction
• Cleaning
• Writing
• Traditional Quantitative Formatting
• Conclusion
• Kitchen Table Talk
• Appendix A: Jack Snowman’s Outline for Framework Review
• Appendix B
• References

Index