New Books from Psychology Press and Routledge

July-September 2012

Research Methods & Statistics

  1. Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size

    By Robert G. Newcombe

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

    Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size illustrates the use of effect size measures and corresponding confidence intervals as more informative alternatives to the most basic and widely used significance tests. The book provides you with a deep understanding of what...

    Published August 24th 2012 by CRC Press

  2. IBM SPSS for Introductory Statistics

    Use and Interpretation, Fifth Edition

    By George A. Morgan, Nancy L. Leech, Gene W. Gloeckner, Karen C. Barrett

    Designed to help students analyze and interpret research data using IBM SPSS, this user-friendly book, written in easy-to-understand language, shows readers how to choose the appropriate statistic based on the design, and to interpret outputs appropriately. The authors prepare readers for all of...

    Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Latent Markov Models for Longitudinal Data

    By Francesco Bartolucci, Alessio Farcomeni, Fulvia Pennoni

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

    Drawing on the authors’ extensive research in the analysis of categorical longitudinal data, Latent Markov Models for Longitudinal Data focuses on the formulation of latent Markov models and the practical use of these models. Numerous examples illustrate how latent Markov models are used in...

    Published October 28th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  4. Qualitative Mathematics for the Social Sciences

    Mathematical Models for Research on Cultural Dynamics

    Edited by Lee Rudolph

    Series: Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation

    In this book Lee Rudolph brings together international contributors who combine psychological and mathematical perspectives to analyse how qualitative mathematics can be used to create models of social and psychological processes. Bridging the gap between the fields with an imaginative and...

    Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge

  5. SPSS for Psychologists

    Fifth Edition

    By Nicola Brace, Richard Kemp, Rosemary Snelgar

    With over 50,000 copies sold, the new edition of this best-selling guide carefully leads the user through the process of using SPSS version 20 to analyze psychological data. The authors review the basic issues regarding design and proceed through all of the major statistical techniques used in...

    Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge

  6. The A-Z of Error-Free Research

    By Phillip I. Good

    A Practical Guide with Step-by-Step Explanations, Numerous Worked Examples, and R CodeThe A–Z of Error-Free Research describes the design, analysis, modeling, and reporting of experiments, clinical trials, and surveys. The book shows you when to use statistics, the best ways to cope with variation,...

    Published July 31st 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC