Psychological Methods & Statistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences

   By Rachel A. Gordon

   Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book targets the social and health science...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Sample Surveys

   By Raymond L. Chambers, David G. Steel, Suojin Wang, Alan Welsh

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability

   Sample surveys provide data used by researchers in a large range of disciplines to analyze important relationships using well-established and widely-used likelihood methods. The methods used to select samples often result in the sample differing in important ways from the target population and...

   Published May 1st 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
3. Simulating Nature

   A Philosophical Study of Computer-Simulation Uncertainties and Their Role in Climate Science and Policy Advice, Second Edition

   By Arthur C. Petersen

   Computer simulation has become an important means for obtaining knowledge about nature. The practice of scientific simulation and the frequent use of uncertain simulation results in public policy raise a wide range of philosophical questions. Most prominently highlighted is the field of...

   Published April 23rd 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
4. Interpreting and Visualizing Regression Models Using Stata

   By Michael N. Mitchell

   Michael Mitchell's Interpreting and Visualizing Regression Models Using Stata is a clear treatment of how to carefully present results from model-fitting in a wide variety of settings. It is a boon to anyone who has to present the tangible meaning of a complex model in a clear fashion, regardless...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Stata Press
5. Multilevel Modeling of Categorical Outcomes Using IBM SPSS

   By Ronald H Heck, Scott Thomas, Lynn Tabata

   Series: Quantitative Methodology Series

   This is the first workbook that introduces the multilevel approach to modeling with categorical outcomes using IBM SPSS Version 20. Readers learn how to develop, estimate, and interpret multilevel models with categorical outcomes. The authors walk readers through data management, diagnostic tools,...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge Academic
6. Neuroscience and the Economics of Decision Making

   Edited by Alessandro Innocenti, Angela Sirigu

   Series: Routledge Advances in Experimental and Computable Economics

   In the last two decades there has been a flourishing research carried out jointly by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists. This meltdown of competences has lead towards original approaches to investigate the mental and cognitive mechanisms involved in the way the economic agent collects,...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Event History Analysis with R

   By Göran Broström

   Series: Chapman &Hall/CRC The R Series

   With an emphasis on social science applications, Event History Analysis with R presents an introduction to survival and event history analysis using real-life examples. Keeping mathematical details to a minimum, the book covers key topics, including both discrete and continuous time data,...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by CRC Press
8. Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Volumes I and II, Third Edition

   By Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Anders Skrondal

   This book examines Stata's treatment of generalized linear mixed models, also known as multilevel or hierarchical models. These models are "mixed" because they allow fixed and random effects, and they are "generalized" because they are appropriate for continuous Gaussian responses as well as binary...

   Published April 1st 2012 by Stata Press
9. Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Volume I

   Continuous Responses, Third Edition

   By Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Anders Skrondal

   Volume I is devoted to continuous Gaussian linear mixed models and has nine chapters. The chapters are organized in four parts. The first part provides a review of the methods of linear regression. The second part provides an in-depth coverage of the two-level models, the simplest extensions of a...

   Published April 1st 2012 by Stata Press
10. Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Volume II

    Categorical Responses, Counts, and Survival, Third Edition

    By Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Anders Skrondal

    Volume II is devoted to generalized linear mixed models for binary, categorical, count, and survival outcomes. The second volume has seven chapters also organized in four parts. The first three parts in volume II cover models for categorical responses, including binary, ordinal, and nominal (a new...

    Published April 1st 2012 by Stata Press