Psychological Methods & Statistics
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Neuroscience and the Economics of Decision Making
- Edited by Alessandro Innocenti.
Published April 2012
In the last two decades there has been a flourishing research carried out jointly by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists. This meltdown of competences has lead towards original approaches to investigate the mental and cognitive mechanisms involved in the way the economic agent collects,…
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Experimental Philosophy and its Critics
- Edited by Joachim Horvath, and Thomas Grundmann.
Published April 2012
Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The…
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Multilevel Modeling of Categorical Outcomes Using IBM SPSS
- By Ronald H Heck, Scott Thomas and Lynn Tabata.
Published April 2012
This is the first workbook that introduces readers to the multilevel approach to modeling with categorical outcomes using IBM SPSS Version 20. Readers learn how to set up, estimate, and interpret multilevel models with categorical outcomes. The authors walk readers step-by-step through data…
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Event History Analysis with R
- By Göran Broström.
Published April 2012
With an emphasis on social science applications, this book presents an introduction to survival and event history analysis. It focuses on practical applications in the fields of demography, epidemiology, and econometrics. The text includes a wide range of real examples, with data available online…
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Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
Distinctive Features
- By Mavis Tsai, Robert J. Kohlenberg, Jonathan W. Kanter, Gareth I. Holman and Mary Plummer Loudon.
Published March 2012
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This volume distils the core principles, methods, and vision of the approach. Each Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) principle is presented in terms of its intended purpose and is clearly linked to the underlying theory, thus providing…
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Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences
- By Rachel A. Gordon.
Published March 2012
Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book targets the social and health science…
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An Introduction to Statistical Concepts
Third Edition
- By Richard G. Lomax, and Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn.
Published March 2012
This comprehensive, flexible text is used in both one- and two-semester courses to review introductory through intermediate statistics. Instructors select the topics that are most appropriate for their course. Its conceptual approach helps students more easily understand the concepts and interpret…
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Statistical Concepts
A Second Course
- By Richard G. Lomax, and Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn.
Published March 2012
Statistical Concepts consists of the last 9 chapters of An Introduction to Statistical Concepts, 3rd ed. Designed for the second course in statistics, it is one of the few texts that focuses just on intermediate statistics. The book highlights how statistics work and what they mean to better…
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Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Volume II
Categorical Responses, Counts, and Survival, Third Edition
- By Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, and Anders Skrondal.
Published February 2012
Volume II is devoted to generalized linear mixed models for binary, categorical, count, and survival outcomes. The second volume has seven chapters also organized in four parts. The first three parts in volume II cover models for categorical responses, including binary, ordinal, and nominal (a new…
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Measurement With Persons
Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas
- Edited by Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni B. Rossi, James T. Townsend and Leslie R. Pendrill.
Published December 2011
Measurements with persons are those in which human perception and interpretation are used for measuring complex, holistic quantities and qualities, which are perceived by the human brain and mind. Providing means for reproducible measurement of parameters such as pleasure and pain has important…
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