Determining sample size balancing power, precision, and practicality

This pocket guide shows social work students, educators, and researchers how to prevent some of the mistakes that would result from a wrong sample size decision by describing and critiquing four main approaches to determining sample size. In concise, example-rich chapters, Dattalo covers sample-size...

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Main Author: Dattalo, Patrick
Other Authors: Patrick Dattalo
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2008
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:This pocket guide shows social work students, educators, and researchers how to prevent some of the mistakes that would result from a wrong sample size decision by describing and critiquing four main approaches to determining sample size. In concise, example-rich chapters, Dattalo covers sample-size determination using power analysis, confidence intervals, computer-intensive strategies, and ethical or cost considerations, as well as techniques for advanced and emerging statistical strategies such as structural equation modeling, multilevel analysis, repeated measures MANOVA and repeated measures ANOVA
Physical Description:167 p.
ill.
22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-161) and index
ISBN:0195315499
9780195315493