The goal of this book is to present the "best practices" in quantitative methods in a well organized and comprehension fashion. It represents an effort quest to gather what the best minds in the field know about particular aspects of data analysis. It is a no-holds barred methodological grudge match where only the best rises to the surface and where only the best is good enough. The goal of this book is to be brutally honest and to present the evidence-based most effective way to do the things done in quantitative ...
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The goal of this book is to present the "best practices" in quantitative methods in a well organized and comprehension fashion. It represents an effort quest to gather what the best minds in the field know about particular aspects of data analysis. It is a no-holds barred methodological grudge match where only the best rises to the surface and where only the best is good enough. The goal of this book is to be brutally honest and to present the evidence-based most effective way to do the things done in quantitative methodology. The mission of this book is to present chapters that encourage best practices in statistics and quantitative methods in three ways. Some chapters will describe important implicit knowledge to readers. For example, one of the most common data transformations is the square root transformation. Statistics and quantitative methods are filled with examples of these seemingly mundane aspects of research life that makes a substantial difference. Chapters in this book gather the important details, make them accessible to readers, and demonstrate why it is important to pay attention to these details. Other chapters compare and contrast analytic techniques to give readers information they need to decide the best way to analyze particular data. For example, exploratory factor analysis has up to eight extraction methods, several rotation options, multiple ways to decide how many factors you have, and it is often the case that the options are not clearly described or discussed. Some of the chapters will examine instances where there are multiple options for doing things, and make recommendations as to what the "best" choice (or choices, as what is best often depends on the circumstances) are. Finally, there are always new procedures being developed and disseminated. Many times (not all) newer procedures represent improvements over old procedures. Some chapters will present and explain new options for data analysis, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the new procedures in depth, describing how to perform them, and demonstrating their use.
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