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Author Cumming, Geoff

Title Introduction to the New Statistics : Estimation, Open Science, and Beyond
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (595 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Brief Contents; Detailed Contents; Preface; Making the Most of This Book; 1. Asking and Answering Research Questions; A Simple Opinion Poll; Further Intuitions; Quiz 1.1; Careful Thinking About Uncertainty; The Replicability Crisis and Open Science; Meta-Analysis; A Step-by-Step Plan for Estimation; Quiz 1.2; Reporting Your Work; Take-Home Messages; End-of-Chapter Exercises; Answers to Quizzes; Answers to In-Chapter Exercises; 2. Research Fundamentals: Don't Fool Yourself; Inference From Sample to Population; Making Comparisons; Quiz 2.1; Measurement
Four Types of Measure: NOIRQuiz 2.2; Three Problematic Forms of Selection; Open Science: Do We Have the Full Story?; Where Do Research Questions Come From?; Quiz 2.3; Reporting Your Work; Take-Home Messages; End-of-Chapter Exercises; Answers to Quizzes; Answers to In-Chapter Exercises; 3. Picturing and Describing Data; Pictures of a Data Set; Using the ESCI Software; The Normal Distribution; Quiz 3.1; Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Location; Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Spread; Quiz 3.2; Descriptive Statistics: Individual Data Points; Choosing Descriptive Statistics
Good and Bad PicturesQuiz 3.3; Reporting Your Work; Take-Home Messages; End-of-Chapter Exercises; Answers to Quizzes; Answers to In-Chapter Exercises; 4. The Normal Distribution and Sampling; Continuous Distributions; The Normal Distribution; Quiz 4.1; Population and Samples; Sampling: The Mean Heap and Dance of the Means; Quiz 4.2; The Standard Error; Some Statistical Magic: The Central Limit Theorem; Quiz 4.3; Take-Home Messages; End-of-Chapter Exercises; Answers to Quizzes; Answers to In-Chapter Exercises; 5. Confidence Intervals and Effect Sizes; Discussing CIs Informally
Estimation Error and MoECalculating a CI: Sound the Trumpets!; Quiz 5.1; The t Distribution; Randomness; Effect Sizes; Quiz 5.2; Interpreting Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals; CI Length, MoE, and Level of Confidence, C; Quiz 5.3; Reporting Your Work; Take-Home Messages; End-of-Chapter Exercises; Answers to Quizzes; Answers to In-Chapter Exercises; 6. p Values, Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, and Confidence Intervals; The Basics of NHST and p Values; Quiz 6.1; p Values and the Normal Distribution; p Values and the t Distribution; Translating Between 95% CIs and p Values; Quiz 6.2
Four NHST and p Value Red FlagsNHST Decision Making; Quiz 6.3; Reporting Your Work; Take-Home Messages; End-of-Chapter Exercises; Answers to Quizzes; Answers to In-Chapter Exercises; 7. The Independent Groups Design; The Independent Groups Design; Quiz 7.1; A Standardized Effect Size Measure: Cohen's d; Quiz 7.2; Thinking About Values of Cohen's d; Quiz 7.3; NHST and p Values; Overlap of CIs on Independent Means; Beware the Enormous Variability of p: The Dance of the p Values; Interpreting the Independent Groups Design; Quiz 7.4; Reporting Your Work; Take-Home Messages
Notes End-of-Chapter Exercises
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Subject Confidence intervals -- Textbooks
Estimation theory -- Textbooks
Mathematical statistics -- Textbooks
Confidence intervals
Estimation theory
Mathematical statistics
Genre/Form Textbooks
Form Electronic book
Author Calin-Jageman, Robert
ISBN 9781317483373
1317483375