Approaching Multivariate Analysis 2nd Edition - Pat Dugard

This fully updated new edition not only provides an introduction to a range of advanced statistical techniques that are used in psychology but has been expanded to include new chapters describing methods and examples of particular interest to medical researchers. It takes a very practical approach aimed at enabling readers to begin using the methods to tackle their own problems. This book provides a non-mathematical introduction to multivariate methods with an emphasis on helping the reader gain an intuitive understanding of what each method is for what it does and how it does it. The first chapter briefly reviews the main concepts of univariate and bivariate methods and provides an overview of the multivariate methods that will be discussed bringing out the relationships among them and summarising how to recognise what types of problem each of them may be appropriate for tackling. In the remaining chapters introductions to the methods and important conceptual points are followed by the presentation of typical applications from psychology and medicine using examples with fabricated data. Instructions on how to do the analyses and how to make sense of the results are fully illustrated with dialogue boxes and output tables from SPSS as well as details of how to interpret and report the output and extracts of SPSS syntax and code from relevant SAS procedures. This book gets students started and prepares them to approach more comprehensive treatments with confidence. This makes it an ideal text for psychology students medical students and students or academics in any discipline that uses multivariate methods.

TITLE: Approaching Multivariate Analysis 2nd Edition

AUTHOR: Pat Dugard

SKU: 9780415645911

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 01/08/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 440

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 191 mm x 248 mm

WEIGHT: 726 gr