Beyond Significance Testing: Statistics Reform in the Behavioral Sciences

by Rex B. Kline

This accessibly written book reviews the controversy about significance testing, which has now crossed various disciplines as diverse as psychology, ecology, commerce, education, and biology, among others. It also introduces readers to alternative methods, especially effect size estimation (at both the group and case levels) and interval estimation (confidence intervals) in comparative studies. Basics of bootstrapping and Bayesian estimation are also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433812789
• ISBN13: 9781433812781
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.2"