Table of Contents “...Inferential statistics : Purposes of inferential statistics ; Type I and type II errors ; Parametric and nonparametric statistical tests ; Power of a statistical test ; Statistical tests used in nursing research ; Testing the significance of correlation coefficients ; Advanced statistical tests ; Critiquing inferential statistics in research reports ; Summary -- 16. ...”

Table of Contents “...Human relations factors and psychology-based budgeting researchConclusion; References; 4 Theorising and testing fit in contingency research on management control systems; Robert H. ...”
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Table of Contents “...Contents note continued: References -- 7.Experimental Research - In the Laboratory and Beyond -- Doing data collection and analysis -- Origins of the approach -- Hypothesis-testing -- Variables in experiments -- Validity and reliability in data collection -- Cases in experiments -- Analysing experiments -- Some issues in research -- Ethical issues -- The crisis in social psychology: A crisis in positivist epistemology? ...”

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Table of Contents “.../ Gary Goertz -- Useful causal complexity / David Byrne and Emma Uprichard -- Partial explanations in social science / Robert Northcott -- Counterfactuals / Julian Reiss -- Mechanistic social probability : how individual choices and varying circumstances produce stable social patterns / Marshall Abrams -- The impact of Duhemian principles on social science testing and progress / Fred Chernoff -- Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics in the social sciences / Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi -- Sciences of historical tokens and theoretical types : history and the social sciences / Aviezer Tucker -- RCTs, evidence and predicting policy effectiveness / Nancy Cartwright -- Bringing context and variability back in to causal analysis / Stephen Morgan and Christopher Winship -- The potential value of computational models in social science research / Ken Kollman -- Models of culture / Mark Risjord -- Norms / David Henderson -- The evolutionary programme in social philosophy / Francesco Guala -- Cultural evolution : integration and scepticism / Tim Lewens -- Coordination and the foundations of social intelligence / Don Ross -- Making race out of nothing : psychologically constrained social roles / Ron Mallon & Daniel Kelly Mallon -- A feminist empirical and integrative approach in political science : breaking-down the glass wall? ...”

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Table of Contents “...Meta-analysis in personality psychology : a primer /...”

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