ISBN:
9780702064029
Copyright:
2010
Publication Date:
08-26-2009
Page Count:
408
Imprint:
Churchill Livingstone
List Price:
$54.99
Research Methods for Clinical Therapists - Elsevier e-Book on VitalSource, 5th Edition
by Carolyn M. Hicks, BA, MA, PhD, PGCE, CPsychol
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780702064029
Copyright:
2010
Publication Date:
08-26-2009
Page Count:
408
Imprint:
Churchill Livingstone
List Price:
$54.99
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- Extended section on calculating sample sizes
- Guidelines on the preparation of posters
- Calculation of Inter-rater reliability measures, including Cohen’s Kappa, ICC (interclass correlation) and Bland-Altman graphs of inter-rater agreement
- Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristics, for use in screening and diagnostic testing against gold-standards
- The Thurstone Paired Comparison Technique, valuable in capturing the user voice on a variety of service planning, design and development issues
- Undertaking Systematic Reviews
- Relevant further reading for each chapter to support readers in their work.
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SECTION 1 Basic principles of research
1. Introduction
2. Research design and statistics: some basic concepts
3. Questionnaires, surveys and sampling
4. The nature of the data
5. Techniques of descriptive statistics
6. Testing hypotheses
7. Designing your study
8. Sources of error in research
9. Matching the research design to the statistical test
10.Putting the theory into practice
11.Writing up the research for publication
12.Reading published research critically
SECTION 2 Statistical tests
13.Non-parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs
14.Parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs
15. Non-parametric tests for different- (unrelated-) subject designs
16.Parametric tests for different- (unrelated-) subject designs
17.Non-parametric and parametric tests for correlational designs
18.Estimation
SECTION 3 Research applications
19.Attitude scales
20.Repertory grid analysis
21.Using statistics in diagnostic and screening tests: receiver operating characteristics
22.Capturing expert opinion: the Delphi technique
23.Capturing the user voice: Thurstone’s paired comparison technique
24.Capturing the clinician’s view: reliability measures
25.Undertaking systematic reviews
Appendices
Appendix 1 Basic mathematical principles
Appendix 2 Statistical probability tables
Appendix 3 Answers to activities
Appendix 4 A sample critique of a published article
Glossary
References, further reading and information sources
Index
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