Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Part One: Introductory Statistics
6. 1 Do You See What I Mean? Indices of Central Tendency 3
7. 2 Maintaining Standards: Differences between the Standard Deviation and Standard Error and When to Use Each 11
8. 3 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Heartbreak of Dichotomizing Continuous Data 20
9. 4 Pick a Number: Sample Size and Power in Psychiatric Research 29
10. 5 Speaking Graphically: An Introduction to Some Newer Graphing Techniques 41
11. 6 Let Me Count the Ways: Measuring Incidence, Prevalence, and Impact in Epidemiological Studies 56
12. 7 Risky Business: Making Sense of Estimates of Risk 72
13. Part Two: More Advanced Statistics
14. 8 The Case of the Missing Data: Methods of Dealing with Dropouts and Other Research Vagaries 83
15. 9 An Introduction to Multivariate Statistics 98
16. 10 Figuring Out Factors: The Use and Misuse of Factor Analysis 110
17. 11 Regression in the Service of the Superego: The Dos and Don’ts of Stepwise Multiple Regression 123
18. 12 Regression towards the Mean: Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment 137
19. 13 Stayin’ Alive: An Introduction to Survival Analysis 148
20. 14 Life after Chi-squared: An Introduction to Log-Linear Analysis 161
21. 15 Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Handling of Confounders in Research 172
22. 16 Finding Our Way: An Introduction to Path Analysis 182
23. 17 Building a Better Model: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling 198
24. 18 Unicorns Do Exist: A Tutorial on “Proving” the Null Hypothesis 211
25. Part Three: Research Methods
26. 19 Reconcilable Differences: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods 225
27. 20 Thinking Small: Research Designs Appropriate for Clinical Practice 242
28. 21 The Two “E’s” of Research: Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials 254
29. Part Four: Measurement
30. 22 A Checklist for Evaluating the Usefulness of Rating Scales 267
31. 23 Learning How to Differ: Agreement and Reliability Statistics 289
32. 24 What’s under the ROC? An Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves 304
33. 25 Measure for Measure: New Developments in Measurement and Item Response Theory 318
34. Part Five: Miscellaneous
35. 26 Putting It All Together: Using Meta-Analysis in Psychiatric Research 333
36. 27 “While you’re up, get me a grant”: A Guide to Grant Application Writing 349
37. 28 A Short Cut to Rejection: How Not to Write the Results Section of a Paper 364
38. Index 375