Design Sensitivity: Statistical Power for Experimental Research

by Mark W. Lipsey

Book Overview

Whether in the laboratory or while doing fieldwork, all researchers face an important challenge - designing research that will have sufficient sensitivity to detect those effects it purports to investigate. Sample size, validity, and sensitivity, experimental error, subject variability and the type of statistical analysis all influence the sensitivity of a research design.

In this volume Lipsey examines the concept of design sensitivity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803930631
• ISBN13: 9780803930636
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Great book for those that can understand the material

I thought this was a great book. The information presented in the book should form the foundational knowledge of a researcher or evaluator. However, the book does require a certain level of sophistication on the part of the reader. While the prose are clear and concise, readers who do not possess a modest amount of statistical knowledge may get lost.