Written by a social worker for social work students, this is a nuts and bolts guide to statistics that presents complex calculations and concepts in clear, easy-to-understand language. It includes numerous examples, data sets, and issues that students will encounter in social work practice. The first section introduces basic concepts and terms to…

A selection of statistical problems commonly encountered in psychological or psychiatric research concerning correlation coefficients are re-evaluated in the light of recently developed simplifications in the forms of the distribution theory of the intraclass correlation coefficient, of the product-moment correlation coefficient, and the Spearman…

This paper demonstrates that a meta-analysis technique applied to the Solomon Four-Group Design (SFGD) can fail to find significance even though an earlier "weaker" test may have found significance. The meta-analysis technique was promoted by Braver and Braver as the most powerful single test for analyzing data from an SFGD. They…

A recent survey of simulation studies concluded that an overwhelming majority of papers do not report a rationale for the number of iterations carried out in Monte Carlo robustness (MCR) experiments. The survey suggested that researchers might benefit from adopting a hypothesis testing strategy in the planning and reporting of simulation studies.…

See TM 501 201-3 and EJ 060 883 for related articles. (MLP)

The controversy regarding the admissibility of one-tailed tests of hypotheses was examined. Rather than taking a stand with regard to whether the one-or the two-tailed test is the most seriously flawed, a procedure is developed which can capitalize on the advantages of each. (RC)

FIFTEEN DAILY DRILLS EMPHASIZING MASTERY OF BASIC NUMBER FACTS, SUCH AS ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT WERE CONSTRUCTED TO ENCOMPASS 7 PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ATTRIBUTES OF AN EFFECTIVE DRILL. ATTRIBUTES ARE MIXED DRILL, TIME LIMIT, INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT EXAMPLES, THOROUGH COVERAGE, FREQUENT AND SMALL AMOUNTS, VERBAL PROBLEMS,…

OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DESIGN AND TEST A TAXONOMY OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF 4 TYPES--PHYSICAL (PICTURES), VERBAL MODIFIER (CAPTION), EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE, AND SUBJECT MATTER. CHI-SQUARE ANALYSIS OF ASSOCIATION AMONG THE TYPES IN A SAMPLE OF 40 GRADE 8 TEXTS IN 4 SUBJECT AREAS WOULD SUGGEST HYPOTHESES FOR FURTHER SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH RELATING…

An empirical sampling study investigated six procedures for testing differences between means in the presence of unequal n's and variances. Support was obtained for previous research which found t robust to heterogeneous variances only when n's are equal and of moderate size. The procedure which emerged as providing the best control over Type I…

This study investigated the effects of non-normality of the marginal distributions of the bivariate surface upon the sampling distribution of certain tests of significance of differences for the product moment correlation coefficient. The effects of non-normality were found to be rather substantial and to be dependent upon: 1) the degree of…

Various cases of unequal variances and unequal sample sizes from a normal and a skewed population were used to empirically obtain the probability of a Type I error and the power for the permutation t-test as compared to Student's t-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test. Empirical results showed differences for different sample sizes, variance ratios,…

Marascuilo (1966) proposes a chi square analog of Scheffe's multiple comparisons procedure. With respect to pairwise comparisons among k independent correlation coefficients, a multiple range procedure will produce lower critical values than the corresponding chi square values, thereby increasing the power of the resulting tests. Basis of the…

A general method of devising stepwise multiple testing procedures with fixed experimentwise error is applied to the problem of non-parametric randomized block design with ordered alternatives. In addition, the method is applied to other models with ordered alternatives. (Author)