Experimental design : a handbook and dictionary for medical and behavioral research /
Scientists planning experiments in medical and behavioral research will find this handbook and dictionary an invaluable desk reference tool. Also recommended as a textbook for students of Experimental Design or accompanying courses in Statistics. Principles of experimental design are introduced, tec...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier,
2000.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Techniques in the behavioral and neural sciences ;
v. 14. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Part A: Handbook of Experimental Design
- Chapter 1. Historical Remarks
- 1.1 The Diet Experiment of the Prophet Daniel
- 1.2 The Lemon Experiment of an Egyptian Judge
- 1.3 Drug Research in the 11th Century
- 1.4 John Stuart Mill and the Foundations of Experimental Research
- 1.5 Wilhelm Wundt and the Experiment in Psychology
- 1.6 The Invention of Randomization
- 1.7 Sir Ronald Fisher and Randomization
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 2. The Object of Experimental Design
- 2.1 Dependent and Independent Variables
- 2.2 Selection of Factor Levels
- 2.3 Causal Relations and Intervening Variables
- 2.4 Ockham's Razor
- 2.5 Constructs
- 2.6 Causal and Correlative Relations
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 3. A Case for Experimental Design
- 3.1 Threats to Statistical Conclusion Validity
- 3.2 Threats to Internal Validity
- 3.3 Threats to Construct Validity
- 3.4 Threats to External Validity
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 4. Control of Extraneous Variables
- 4.1 Randomization
- 4.2 Elimination and Blocking Off
- 4.3 Constancy and Covering
- 4.4 Matching and Blocking
- 4.5 Extraneous Variables as Independent Variables
- 4.6 Replication
- 4.7 Balancing
- 4.8 Counterbalancing
- 4.9 Blinding
- 4.10 Control Groups and Control Conditions
- 4.11 Conservative Arrangement of the Levels of Extraneous Variables
- 4.12 Repeated Measures
- 4.13 Statistical Adjustment
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 5. Preliminary Experiments and Pilot Studies
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 6. Designs which had Better be Avoided
- 6.1 Designs without Randomization
- 6.2 Designs without a Control Group
- 6.3 Designs with Repeated Measures
- 6.4 Crossover Designs
- 6.5 Designs with more than Two Factors
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 7. Designs without Repeated Measures
- 7.1 Designs with One Independent Variable
- 7.2 Designs with Two Independent Variables
- 7.3 Designs with more than Two Independent Variables
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 8. Designs with Repeated Measures
- 8.1 Designs with One Independent Variable
- 8.2 Designs with more than One Independent Variable
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 9. Single-Case Experimental Designs
- 9.1 Basic Principles of Single-Case Experimental Designs
- 9.2 Selected Single-Case Experimental Designs
- 9.3 An Alternative Principle of Single-Case Experimental Designs
- 9.4 Combination of the Results of Several Independent Single-Case Experimental Designs
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers to the Questions (with References)
- Part B: Dictionary of Experimental Design
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Last Page.