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Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, figures, bottom corners last few pages & rear cover creased, minor edgewear. 244 pp. This book on action research has been designed for use as a core text for research methods courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level and for professional training courses.

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition. 169 pp. The first edition of a commonly recommended textbook that provides tools for practitioners working in community, organizational and instititutional settings. Defines community-based action research in the context of qualitative research methodology. Describes an uncannily simple but effective model for approaching action research.

Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks / Cole / Thomson Learning, 2003. Hardback small quarto, no jacket as issued, as new condition, pictorial cover, CD-ROM in rear pocket. Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 556 pp. Provides an application-oriented intuitively motivated introduction to modern multivariate data analysis. Utilizes a geometric approach which helps the reader to visualize how each method works. Many sample problems from a wide variety of disciplines including psychology, sociology and marketing. Part 1: general overview. Part 2: analysis of independence (eg, factor analysis, cluster analysis). Part 3: analysis of dependence (eg, ANOVA, structural equation modelling).

New York: Routledge, 2009. 5th ed.. Paperback large thick octavo, very good condition, tables, figures, corners covers little creased, few small marks bottom edge, loosely inserted correction sheet. Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 651 pp. Fifth edition. A clear description of multivariate statistics, with many practical examples, including code for SPSS and SAS.

New York: Vintage / Random House, 1960. Paperback small, very good condition, pages toned as common, minor edgewear, old price marks, black texta mark front flyleaf. 239 pp. An entirely fresh approach to the intellectual adventure of scientific research, originally published in 1950. (No date, but 1960.).

London: Prentice-Hall International, 1994. 2nd ed.. Paperback wide octavo, good condition, figures, tables, pages lightly toned, few creases covers, front cover lightly creased, edgewear. 344 pp. Second edition. Beth Dawson-Saunders and Robert Trapp cover the traditional topics of biostatistics and quantitative methods as applied to medicine, clinical practice, and research in the easy-to-understand Lange format. Actual examples emphasize design, the interpretation of medical research results, mastery of statistical literacy, and the development of sound judgement about data applicable to clinical care.

London: Tavistock Publications, 1970. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), corner loss one page, edgewear jacket (lightly soiled), some annotation (underlining), owner's written name. 248 pp. By Australian educated psychologist and sociologist, now at Oslo University, Norway. Asserts that each individual and group inhabits their own behavioural universe - thus research methods must be adjusted for each case study. Describes four suitable techniques: autonomous group functioning; pupil-task relationships; family process; and organizational behaviour.

Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, top corner front free flyleaf clipped, minor edgewear. 178 pp.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2000. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, tables, minor edgewear. 212 pp. Robert Rosenthal and two colleagues examine contrasts, which are statistical procedures for asking focused questions of data. Compared to diffuse or omnibus questions, focused questions have greater conceptual clarity and greater statistical power. If an effect truly exists, we are more likely to discover it when asking focused (rather than omnibus) questions. Researchers and teachers of research methods will be introduced to the principles and procedures of contrast analysis, and also to a series of newly developed concepts, measures, and indices that permit a wider and more useful application of contrast analysis.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1985. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, minor edgewear, rubber stamp. 107 pp. Robert Rosenthal and Ralph Rosnow explain how contrast analysis permits us to ask more focused questions of our data. In return for a small amount of simple computation, we get greater statistical power, and can make clearer substantive interpretations of the research results. Contrast analysis is employed within analysis of variance (ANOVA) whenever the numerator degrees of freedom are greater than one (which is most of the time). Unfortunately, it is employed rarely by behavioural and social scientists. This book is a non-mathematical account enabling researchers to address focused questions posed by theories, hypotheses, and hunches. Many researchers in the behavioural and social sciences, education and business should find this book useful.

Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, figures. 207 pp. All researchers face an important challenge - designing research that will have sufficient sensitivity to detect the effects being investigated. Sample size, reliability, validity, measurement error, subject variability and the type of statistical analysis all influence the sensitivity of a research design. Lipsey examines the concept of design sensitivity and explains statistical power and the elements that determine it. Through careful explanations and selection of examples he explores: factors that degrade design sensitivity, effect size parameters and approaches to assessing it, how to estimate statistical power for various statistical tests, and the special problems statistical power poses for treatment effectiveness research. A vital resource for evaluators, methodologists, statisticians, psychologists and public health professionals.

New York: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2008. Paperback small octavo, as new condition, figures, tables. 167 pp. A researcher's decision about sample size for a study has a big impact on the results, and it rests on numerous statistical and practical factors that can be difficult to assess. This pocket guide by Patrick Dattalo shows social work students, educators, and researchers how to prevent the mistakes that result from a wrong sample size decision by describing and critiquing four main approaches to determining sample size. Covers statistical power analysis, confidence intervals, computer-intensive strategies, and ethical and cost considerations, as well as emerging statistical strategies such as structural equation modeling, multilevel analysis, and repeated measures MANOVA.

London: Sage Publications, 2009. 3rd ed.. Paperback thick small quarto, very good condition, figures, tables, cartoons, minor edgewear. Very heavy (2.1 Kg), and not available for postage to destinations outside Australia. 822 pp. Third edition. The author is reader in psychology, University of Sussex. He loves cats, and is an award-winner in making statistics accessible and enjoyable. More than just a primer for SPSS; statistics are explained, with copious interpretation of SPSS printouts. Covers descriptive statistics, and all common univariate and multivariate significance procedures, up to MANOVAs and exploratory factor analysis. The CD contains datasets and answers to questions. (Companion website available, containing practice datasets, questions and a lot more.).

Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Service / Melbourne Family Care Organization / Allen & Unwin, 1984. Reprint ed.. Paperback small folio, very good condition, black & white cartoons, minor edgewear. 89 pp. A popular pictorial guide by Yoland Wadsworth to social research methods. (The scarce first edition, 1984, reprint. Publisher: Victorian Council of Social Service in association with Allen & Unwin.).

Sydney: UNSW Press / Deakin University Press, 2002. Reissue ed.. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, figures, tables, black & white text-photos, rear cover lightly scratched, minor edgewear. 155 pp. This book, edited by John Perry, aims to introduce students to the conduct of fieldwork, the way in which anthropologists and sociologists go about the business of collecting the 'facts' that are the basis for later theory and description. These eight personal accounts of their first experience of field research by academics at Deakin University were presented at a seminar for staff and student discussion. Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, specialises in distance education. (Reissue edition, with new ISBN. Originally published, 1989.).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition. 340 pp. Gerd Gigerenzer and colleagues describe how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last 300 years. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance, to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact in biology, physics and psychology. Recurring themes include determinism, inference, causality, free will, evidence, and the shifting meaning of probability - but in dramatically different disciplinary and historical contexts. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centres on how these technical innovations remade our conceptions of nature, mind and society. Written by an interdisciplinary team of historians and… Read More

New York: Springer Science + Business, 2006. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, CD-ROM in rear pocket. 241 pp. A clear guide to the popular Endnote database program, often used to store references for scientific papers. SALE PRICE.

New York: Worth Publishers / Macmillan Learning, 2016. 3rd ed.. Paperback quarto, as new condition, many figures & text-photos. Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 502 pp. Third edition. (Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 3rd edition, Susan Nolan and Thomas Heinzen, Worth Publishers, 2016.) This popular statistics textbook by Susan Nolan and Thomas Heinzen introduces students to the why and how of statistical practice in the behavioural sciences, helping them break through common barriers to success in the course. It contains captivating storytelling, real world examples, image and graphic rich design, accessible mathematics, and step by step worked examples, This new edition of their briefer textbook offers fresh exercises, and stronger reinforcement of the material's relevance and mathematical requirements, and more help with visual displays. Interfaces with an innovative online resource, LaunchPad, with intuitive… Read More

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 1st ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, minimal edgewear. Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 616 pp. First edition. The selected essays provide a picture of the breadth, variation and complexity of the fieldwork enterprise. More than just data gathering methods are covered; included are case studies, issues of professional identity, and the relationship to ethnographic writing. Provides a sense of both classic and contemporary reflections, tensions between the self and other, the relationship between anthropologist and informant, ethical challenges, and styles of writing about fieldwork.

New York: Irvington Publishers, 1976. Revised ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket (flaps pasted to pastedowns), cloth spine, very good condition. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 500 pp. This classic textbook is a summary of research on experimenter effects, that is, how the experimenter often unintentionally effects or biases the outcome of psychological experimental research. Experimenter effects are classified as biosocial, psychosocial, situational, experimenter modelling, and experimenter expectancy.