Computer-assisted Research Design and Analysis

Book excerpt: Designed for upper-level undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in research design and analysis in departments of psychology, education, sociology, anthropology, and other social and behavioral sciences. A comprehensive review of analyses of basic and complex ANOVA models through traditional approaches and multiple regression, integrating the most recent releases of MINITAB, SAS, SPSS, and SYSTAT. In all chapters of this comprehensive text, both the basic model and its numerous complexities are presented along with discussions of effect size, relative efficiency and comparisons, illustrated by numerous examples. For each major model, the text provides tests for assumptions, a hand-worked example, and an example with real data including a write-up of the results using APA format. The text also provides data sets, syntax, and output for accomplishing numerous additional analyses through recent releases of MINITAB, SAS, SPSS and SYSTAT, often neglected in software manuals. *TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE: Inclusion of syntax and output from MINITAB, SAS, SPSS, and SYSTAT allows students to concentrate on the research question rather than on the specifics of the software program and provides