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Inspired to write on this topic in reaction to mistakes he encountered in actual papers, David L. Streiner uses his trademark sense of humour and light-hearted style to explain complex statistical concepts in lucid, jargon-free language.
List of contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
PART 1: INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS
1. Do You See What I Mean? Indices of Central Tendency
2. Maintaining Standards: Differences Between the Standard Deviation and Standard Error, and When to Use Each
3. Breaking Up is Hard to Do: The Heartbreak of Dichotomizing Continuous Data
4. Pick a Number: Sample Size and Power in Psychiatric Research
5. Speaking Graphically: An Introduction to Some Newer Graphing Techniques
6. Let Me Count the Ways: Measuring Incidences, Prevalence, and Impact in Epidemiological Studies
7. Risky Business: Making Sense of Estimates of Risk
PART 2: MORE ADVANCED STATISTICS
8. The Case of the Missing Data: Methods of Dealing with Dropouts and Other Research Vagaries
9. An Introduction to Multivariate Statistics
10. Figuring Out Factors: The Use and Misuse of Factor Analysis
11. Regression in the Service of the Superego: The Do’s and Don’ts of Stepwise Multiple Regression
12. Regression Toward the Mean: Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
13. Stayin’ Alive: An Introduction to Survival Analysis
14. Life After Chi-Squared: An Introduction to Log-Linear Analysis
15. Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Handling of Confounders in Research
16. Finding Our Way: An Introduction to Path Analysis
17. Building a Better Model: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling
18. Unicorns
Do Exist: A Tutorial on “Proving” the Null Hypothesis
PART 3: RESEARCH METHODS
19. Reconcilable Differences: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
20. Thinking Small: Research Designs Appropriate for Clinical Practice
21. The Two “Es” of Research: Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials
PART 4: MEASUREMENT
22. A Checklist for Evaluating the Usefulness of Rating Scales
23. Learning How to Differ: Agreement and Reliability Statistics
24. What’s Under the ROC? An Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
25. Measure for Measure: New Developments in Measurement and Item Response Theory
PART 5: MISCELLANEOUS
26. Putting it All Together: Using Meta-Analysis in Psychiatric Research
27. “While You’re Up, Get Me a Grant”: A Guide to Grant Writing
28. A Shortcut to Rejection: How Not to Write the Results Section of a Paper
INDEX
About the author
By David L. Streiner
Summary
Inspired to write on this topic in reaction to mistakes he encountered in actual papers, David L. Streiner uses his trademark sense of humour and light-hearted style to explain complex statistical concepts in lucid, jargon-free language.
