Research Catalog

Title

Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences / Jacob Cohen.

Author

Cohen, Jacob, 1923-1998

Publication

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988.

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Details

Description

xxi, 567 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This is a nontechnical guide to power analysis in research planning that provides users of applied statistics with the tools they need for more effective analysis. The second edition includes: a chapter covering power analysis in set correlation and multivariate methods; a chapter considering effect size, psychometric reliability, and the efficacy of "qualifying" dependent variables and; expanded power and sample size tables for multiple regression/correlation.

Subjects

• Nurses' Instruction
• Probability
• Behavioral Sciences
• Statistical power analysis
• Statistical methods
• Probabilities
• Social sciences > Statistical methods
• Statistics
• Nurses Instruction
• Statistics as Topic

Genre/Form

• Nurses Instruction
• Nurses' Instruction.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 553-558.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1. The concepts of power analysis -- Chapter 2. The t test for means -- Chapter 3. The significance of a product moment r[sub s] -- Chapter 4. Differences between correlation coefficients -- Chapter 5. The test that a proportion is .50 and the sign test -- Chapter 6. Differences between proportions -- Chapter 7. Chi-square tests for goodness of fit and contingency tables -- Chapter 8. The analysis of variance and covariance -- Chapter 9. Multiple regression and correlation analysis -- Chapter 10. Set correlation and multivariate methods -- Chapter 11. Some issues in power analysis -- Chapter 12. Computational procedures.

ISBN

0805802835

LCCN

^^^88012110^

OCLC

• 17877467
• SCSB-12021277

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library