There′s a Stat for That!: What to Do & When to Do it

About the Book

Bruce Frey’s There’s a Stat for That! is a brief, straightforward, and to-the-point guide to deciding which statistical analysis to use and when to use it. Designed for consultants, researchers, students, and those who already have the resources to tell them how to perform the analyses, this text explains why a particular statistical approach is the right one to use. The book affirms that regardless of the group design, once the variables are chosen and the measurement strategy is worked out, one can rest assured that there is a stat for that!

Table of Contents:
There′s a Stat for That! Preface Acknowledgments About the Author The Basics PART 1. FREQUENCY ANALYSIS Module 1. Binomial Test Module 2. Chi-Squared Module 3. Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test Module 4. Single-Sample t Test Module 5. Fisher Exact Test Module 6. Two-Way Chi-Squared PART 2. GROUP COMPARISONS Module 7. Mann-Whitney Test Module 8. Independent t Test Module 9. Median Test Module 10. Kruskal-Wallis Test Module 11. Analysis of Variance Module 12. Two-Way Analysis of Variance Module 13. aAalysis of Covariance Module 14. Multivariate Analysis of Variance PART 3. REPEATED MEASURES OF ANALYSES Module 15. McNemar Change Test Module 16. Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test Module 17. Paired-Samples t Test Module 18. Cochran Q Test Module 19. Friedman Test Module 20. Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance Module 21. Two-Way Repeated Measures Module 22. Mixed Analysis of Variance Module 23. Time Series Analysis PART 4. CORRELATIONAL ANALYSES Module 24. Kappa Coefficient of Agreement Module 25. Spearman Correlation Coefficient Module 26. Phi Correlation Coefficient Module 27. Cramér’s V Coefficient Module 28. Simple Logistic Regression Module 29. Multiple Logistic Regression Module 30. Discriminant Analysis Module 31. Pearson Correlation Coefficient Module 32. Simple Linear Regression Module 33. Multiple Linear Regression Module 34. Canonical Correlation Module 35. Exploratory Factor Analysis Module 36. Confirmatory Factor Analysis Module 37. Cluster Analysis Module 38. Path Analysis Module 39. Structural Equation Modeling Module 40. Hierarchical Linear Modeling Index

About the Author :
Bruce B. Frey, PhD, is an award-winning researcher, author, teacher, and professor of educational psychology at the University of Kansas. He is the editor of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation and the SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Design. In addition to being the lead author for The Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics series, his books for Sage include There’s a Stat for That!, and 100 Questions (and Answers) About Tests and Measurement. He also wrote Statistics Hacks for O’Reilly Media. In his spare time, Bruce leads a secret life as Professor Bubblegum, host of a YouTube channel and Echo Valley, a podcast that celebrates bubblegum pop music of the late 1960s. The show is wildly popular with the young people.

Review :

[…T]his is a book that students will keep for their entire career. It will be handy year after year as they are designing and conducting research. It will help them to design studies that answer their exact research hypothesis, rather than designing studies around the techniques they know how to use.

Clear writing style, nice tables and charts, and good references to journal articles for each statistic make this valuable for reviewing statistics and for helping decide which statistic to use in a research situation.

The consistency of the visual presentation of the topics is very clear and helpful. Things to consider is more simple and easy to understand and use than any other supplemental books I have used.

Short, concise treatment of topics is a notable strength of this book. Each test is boiled down to its basics, giving a precise and ‘in the nutshell’ reference that students are likely to find straightforward and helpful.