| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
How statistics support science -- Testing the null -- Constraining Bayes -- Effects: what tests test -- Planning your statistical analysis -- A cautionary tail: why you should not do a one-tailed test -- Is this normal? -- Sorting out outliers -- Power and two types of error -- Using non-parametric tests -- A robust t-Test -- The ANOVA family and friends -- Exploring, over-testing and fishing -- When is a correlation not a correlation? -- What makes a good Likert item? -- The meaning of factors -- Unreliable reliability: the problem of Cronbach's alpha -- Tests for questionnaires |
| Summary |
Each chapter of this book covers specific topics in statistical analysis, such as robust alternatives to t-tests or how to develop a questionnaire. They also address particular questions on these topics, which are commonly asked by human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers when planning or completing the analysis of their data. The book presents the current best practice in statistics, drawing on the state-of-the-art literature that is rarely presented in HCI. This is achieved by providing strong arguments that support good statistical analysis without relying on mathematical explanations. It additionally offers some philosophical underpinnings for statistics, so that readers can see how statistics fit with experimental design and the fundamental goal of discovering new HCI knowledge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human-computer interaction.
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Human-computer interaction -- Statistical methods
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Human-computer interaction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108685139 |
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1108685137 |
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