Robert E. McGrath

Quantitative Models in Psychology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using the organizing principle that quantitative methods are the building blocks of models, this book focuses on models of inference, models of measurement, and the modelling of psychological phenomena. With clear prose and a reader-friendly format, McGrath introduces a conceptual framework for the entire spectrum of quantitative modelling procedures used in psychology while providing a solid grounding in its methods and practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Seitenzahl: 241
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781433809590
• ISBN-10: 1433809591
• Artikelnr.: 32932387

Autorenporträt

Robert E. McGrath

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
I. Models of Inference
1. Preliminary Concepts in Inference
2. Significance Testing
3. Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
4. Practical Issues in Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
5. Alternatives to Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
II. Models of Measurement
1. Models of Measurement Error
2. Latent-Variable Models
III. Structural Modeling
1. Preliminary Concepts in Structural Modeling
2. Modeling Psychological Phenomena
References
Index
About the Author