Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings
- 382 pages
- English
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Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings
About This Book
Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles, especially given today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. This book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis. Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings features:
*short, independent, chapters that do not have to be read in order;
*a guide to understanding why a particular statistic was selected;
*an emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency;
*numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material; and
*methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice.This book is intended for practitioners and students in psychology, education, counseling, mental and allied health, nursing, and medicine, and as a text for courses on understanding research methods and statistics.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introductory Chapters
- Part II Variables and Their Measurement
- Part III Research Approaches, Questions, And Designs
- Part IV Introduction To The Evaluation Of Methods And Designs
- Part V Introduction To Inferential Statistics And Their Interpretation
- Part VI Selection And Interpretation Of Specific Statistics
- Part VII APPLICATION ChapterS
- Part VIII Evaluation Of Research Validity
- Appendix A Research Validity Evaluation Form
- Appendix B Completed Research Validity Evaluation Form
- Appendix C Comparative Numerical Evaluations of the Four Sample Studies
- Appendix D Confusing Terms
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index