Presenting Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Tables [Paperback]

Adelheid A. M. Nicol (Author), Penny M. Pexman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999 | ISBN-10: 1557985936 | ISBN-13: 978-1557985934 | Edition: 1

Gone are the days when researchers and students were forced to search through stacks of journals for the best way to construct a table of results. In an engaging and accessible format, this book provides invaluable guidance on the proper table format for a wide range of statistical analyses. Each chapter is devoted to a different statistic and provides a variety of examples of how the information could best be displayed. Included for each statistic is a "Play It Safe" table that illustrates the most comprehensive formatting options. This definitive resource for how to build tables will eliminate editorial drudgery and free up your time for more gainful pursuits.

Product Details

• Paperback: 157 pages
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 1 edition (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557985936
• ISBN-13: 978-1557985934
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #567,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must for Students and Professionals Using APA Style, April 27, 2000

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William C. Bailey "EQ Coach and Researcher" (Fayetteville, AR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Presenting Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Tables (Paperback)

This book has been needed for twenty years. Students and professional researchers who write dissertations and manuscripts using APA style have desperately needed this very helpful resource. The book illustrates standard presentation tables for more than twenty types of standard statistical tests. The concept of "Play It Safe" tables will save researchers hundreds of hours of time. The table illustrations are clear and precise depending on the focus of the data to be presented. The few words that are written prior to presenting a table are helpful in clarifying the data contained in the tables. One small problem is noted. It would have been helpful to include how APA style recommends reporting statistical data in paragraph form in this book also. Despite this omission, I still give this book 5 stars.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No more puzzling over tables!, February 18, 2002

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This review is from: Presenting Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Tables (Paperback)

This is an invaluable resource for anyone who needs to present their research results in APA style. This is not a statistics text but rather a manual for generating tables. Each chapter focuses on a different statistic and includes a "play it safe" comprehensive table as well as several variations. Well-organized, practical, and concise.

27 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Maybe for the APA style..., May 2, 2003

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This review is from: Presenting Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Tables (Paperback)

I was deeply disappointed with the book. The tables look as done with a typewriter, good for those missing that 70's thesis. Apparently nobody told the authors that p-values are no longer to be reported as p<0.05, but with their full value. And finally, there is no "clever" solution to more complex tables, but just tons of tables with pretty standard results. What is reported in the tables is not widely applicable too. In my area - epidemiology - we do not report standard errors, we report confidence intervals. We also do not report mean squares, f-values, or t-values, or chi-squared-values and so on - we report only the full p-values. If you're not into APA, look elsewhere.