Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

Geoffrey Keppel (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0132007754 | ISBN-13: 978-0132007757 | Publication Date: February 5, 1991 | Edition: 3

Appropriate for advanced undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Research Methods, Experimental Psychology, Experimental Design, and Advanced Statistics. Designed to bridge the gap between elementary texts in statistics and experimental design and professional source books, this volume provides students with the basic information necessary to design and analyze meaningful experiments in the behavioral, social, and biological sciences.

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Designed to bridge the gap between elementary texts in statistics and experimental design and professional source books, this volume provides students with the basic information necessary to design and analyze meaningful experiments in the behavioral, social, and biological sciences. Fourth edition to be available Fall, 1997.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 672 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (February 5, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132007754
• ISBN-13: 978-0132007757
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #445,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intuitive, yet rigorous, November 19, 2001

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This review is from: Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

This is probably the best experimental design and analysis text available out there. Unlike other texts (e.g., Winer et al.'s), it is writen as a book to be read rather than as a reference to be consulted sporadically. My graduate students all praise it for being just at the right level of intuitiveness-rigor. I suspect that it covers about 85-90% of the analysis issues that behavioral researchers face with respects to experimental data (e.g., from one-way ANOVAs to three-way mixed-design factorials, contrast analysis, elementary ANCOVA). For the rest (e.g., fractional designs, random-effects models), researchers should consult more technical (and less readable) texts such as Kirk's and Winer et al.'s. I only wished that the author would come up with a new edition--the current edition (the 3rd) was published in 1991--and that he would use a broader range of examples (e.g.,from social psychology as opposed to cognitive psychology only). Overall,however, it's a great reference.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook, August 15, 2005

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Bob Lillard "Bob" (Duncan, OK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook (4th Edition) (Hardcover)

This is absolutely one of the best statistical analysis reference books that I've ever seen. It's easy to read, easy to follow and doesn't skip the minor steps that people several years out of the academia environment tend for forget. I highly recommend this handbook for anyone that is wanting to do Real Work in Real Time.

2.0 out of 5 stars Missing Pages, October 22, 2011

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This review is from: Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook (4th Edition) (Hardcover)

The book itself is very helpful. It mostly focuses on the math behind the various statistical tests. I'd have liked if it spent more time talking about the theory behind what that math means. Still, if you're just looking for a book that explains what the different tests do and how to do them, then this book will get the job done. It uses a novel way of calculating ANOVAs though, using what it calls "bracket terms". This approach is pretty simple and time saving, but I think it makes the theoretical reasons for what you're doing less clear. The book also uses it's own set of terms, such as using "Y" to represent individual scores instead of the more common "x" (there's many more examples). If you've taken other stats classes before, this can be really confusing at first.

My big complaint is that my book was missing pages 278-324 out of the center of the book, obvious production error. I think that's a pretty serious lapse in quality control. I don't go through each book I buy looking for missing pages so I didn't realize the omission until chapter 13 suddenly became chapter 15 as I was reading it. Unfortunately, this was after the window for refunds had closed, so I'm stuck with a book missing an entire chapter and half of two others.

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