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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Basic principles of research | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Research design and statistics: some basic concepts | p. 17 |
Questionnaires, surveys and sampling | p. 23 |
The nature of the data | p. 37 |
Techniques of descriptive statistics | p. 45 |
Testing hypotheses | p. 69 |
Designing your study | p. 91 |
Sources of error in research | p. 103 |
Matching the research design to the statistical test | p. 121 |
Putting the theory into practice | p. 135 |
Writing up the research for publication | p. 147 |
Reading published research critically | p. 161 |
Statistical tests | p. 167 |
Non-parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs | p. 169 |
Parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs | p. 187 |
Non-parametric tests for different-(unrelated-) subject designs | p. 201 |
Parametric tests for different- (unrelated-) subject designs | p. 221 |
Non-parametric and parametric tests for correlational designs | p. 235 |
Estimation | p. 253 |
Research applications | p. 263 |
Attitude scales | p. 265 |
Repertory grid analysis | p. 275 |
Using statistics in diagnostic and screening tests: Receiver Operating Characteristics | p. 287 |
Capturing expert opinion: the Delphi technique | p. 301 |
Capturing the user voice: Thurstone's paired comparison technique | p. 309 |
Capturing the clinician's view: reliability measures | p. 315 |
Undertaking systematic reviews | p. 327 |
Appendices | |
Basic mathematical principles | p. 337 |
Statistical probability tables | p. 341 |
Answers to activities | p. 359 |
A sample critique of a published article | p. 371 |
Glossary | p. 391 |
Index | p. 399 |
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