Real Data Analysis (eBook)

Cover 1
Contents 5
Preface 9
Part I - Foundations 23
Chapter 1. The Coevolution of Statistics and HZ 25
Chapter 2. Effective Sample Size: A Crucial Concept 43
Chapter 3. Advances in Missing Data Methods and Implications for Educational Research 53
Chapter 4. Methods for Simulating Real World Data for the Psycho-Educational Sciences 101
Chapter 5. How and Why I Use Real, Messy Data to Investigate Theory and Inform Decision Making 121
Part II - Statistical Methods 127
Chapter 6. Using E-mail Messages to Help Students Prepare for a Statistics Exam 129
Chapter 7. Randomization Tests: Statistical Tools for Assessing the Effects of Educational Interventions When Resources are Scarce 137
Chapter 8. A Skipped Multivariate Measure of Location: One- and Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing 147
Chapter 9. Robust Step-Down Tests for Multivariate Group Differences 161
Chapter 10. Dunn-Sidák Critical Values and p Values 171
Chapter 11. Controlling Experiment-Wise Type I Errors: Good Advice for Simultaneous and Sequential Hypothesis Testing 177
Chapter 12. Robustness and Power of Ordinal d for Paired Data 185
Chapter 13. Factorial ANOVA in SPSS: Fixed-, Random-, and Mixed-Effects Models 207
Chapter 14. ANOVA: Effect Sizes, Simulating Interaction vs. Main Effects, and a Modified ANOVA Table 213
Chapter 15. ANCOVA and Quasi-Experimental Design: The Legacy of Campbell and Stanley 235
Part III - Measurement 261
Chapter 16. Thinking About Item Response Theory from a Logistic Regression Perspective: A Focus on Polytomous Models 263
Chapter 17. Some Practical Uses of Item Response Time to Improve the Quality of Low-Stakes Achievement Test Data 293
Chapter 18. Using Moving Averages to Detect Exposed Test Items in Computer-Based Testing 299
Chapter 19. An Empirical Calibration of the Effects of Multiple Sources of Measurement Error on Reliability Estimates for Individual Differences Measures 309
Chapter 20. Latent Structure of Attitudes toward Abortion 315
Part IV - Data Analysis 321
Chapter 21. Hierarchical Linear Models and the Estimation of Students’ Mathematics Achievement 323
Chapter 22. Grade Inflation: An Examination at the Institutional Level 337
Chapter 23. Using Discrete-Time Survival Analysis to Study Gender Differences in Leaving Mathematics 347
Chapter 24. Nonparametric Procedures for Testing for Dropout Rates on University Courses With Application to an Italian Case Study 357
Chapter 25. Nonparametric Approaches for Multivariate Testing With Mixed Variables and for Ranking on Ordered Categorical Variables With an Application to the Evaluation of PhD Programs 377
Chapter 26. Randomized Replicated Single-case Experiments: Treatment of Pain-Related Fear by Graded Exposure In Vivo 409
Chapter 27. Whole Brain Correlations: Examining Similarity Across Conditions of Overall Patterns of Neural Activation in fMRI 419
28. Principal Component Analysis of Senate Voting Patterns 427
About the Authors 433