Paul Cairns

Doing Better Statistics in Human-Computer Interaction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses common questions from HCI researchers when trying to do statistical analysis on their data.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 143mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781108482523
• ISBN-10: 110848252X
• Artikelnr.: 53775602

Autorenporträt

Paul Cairns is a reader in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of York and Scholar-in-Residence for The AbleGamers Charity that helps people with disabilities combat social isolation by making videogames more accessible. He has taught statistics at all levels of education for nearly twenty years. His particular research interest is in players' experiences of digital games, and his expertise in experimental and statistical methods was developed through working in this area.

Inhaltsangabe

Getting started
Part I. Why We Use Statistics: 1. How statistics support science
2. Testing the null
3. Constraining Bayes
4. Effects: what tests test
Part II. How To Use Statistics: 5. Planning your statistical analysis
6. A cautionary tail: why you should not do a one-tailed test
7. Is this normal?
8. Sorting out outliers
9. Power and two types of error
10. Using nonparametric tests
11. A robust t-test
12. The ANOVA family and friends
13. Exploring, over-testing and fishing
14. When is a correlation not a correlation?
15. What makes a good Likert item?
16. The meaning of factors
17. Unreliable reliability: the problem of Cronbach's alpha
18. Tests for questionnaires.