The Essential Guide to Effect Sizes

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-521-19423-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

This succinct and jargon-free introduction to effect sizes gives students and researchers the tools they need to interpret the practical significance of their results. Using a class-tested approach that includes numerous examples and step-by-step exercises, it introduces and explains three of the most important issues relating to the practical significance of research results: the reporting and interpretation of effect sizes (Part I), the analysis of statistical power (Part II), and the meta-analytic pooling of effect size estimates drawn from different studies (Part III). The book concludes with a handy list of recommendations for those actively engaged in or currently preparing research projects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellis, Paul D.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Introduction
Part I. Effect Sizes and the Interpretation of Results: 1. Introduction to effect sizes
2. Interpreting effects
Part II. The Analysis of Statistical Power: 3. Power analysis and the detection of effects
4. The painful lessons of power research
Part III. Meta-Analysis: 5. Drawing conclusions using meta-analysis
6. Minimizing bias in meta-analysis
Last word: thirty recommendations for researchers
Appendices: 1. Minimum sample sizes
2. Alternative methods for meta-analysis
Bibliography
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ellis, Paul D.
Paul D. Ellis is Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he has taught research methods for nearly fifteen years. His research interests include trade and investment issues, marketing and economic development, international entrepreneurship, and economic geography. Professor Ellis has been ranked as one of the world's most prolific scholars in the field of international business.