Handbook of statistical methods : single subject design / Eiki Satake, Vinoth Jagaroo, David L. Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Satake, Eiki, author.

Jagaroo, Vinoth, author.

Maxwell, David L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical medicine--Statistical methods--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Clinical medicine.

Single subject research--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Single subject research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Diego, California ; Oxford, [England] ; Brisbane, [Queensland] : Plural Publishing Inc., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the behavioral and clinical sciences, single-subject designs have increasingly become important tools for determining a treatment efficacy. Despite a large number of recommendations in recent years for more use of the designs, the majority of typical research methods textbooks still do not provide sufficient direction and information about single-subject designs. One of the main reasons is that data analysis of single-subject designs is still foreign to the vast majority of the investigators, practitioners, and students. The authors have developed a practical guide of the most commonly used

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I. Theoretical Foundations and Statistical Methods of Single Subject Research: Most Frequently Asked Questions""; ""Section A. Frequently Asked Questions""; ""Part II. Clinical Applications in the Behavioral and Health Sciences: Description, Graph, and Statistical Analysis""; ""Section A. Single Subject Designs in the Treatment of Anomia in Aphasia""; ""Section B. Single Subject Designs in the Treatment of Dysarthria""; ""Section C. Single Subject Designs in Clinical and Rehabilitation Psychology""

""Section D. Single Subject Designs in the Assessment of Speech and Hearing Following Cochlear Implants""""Section E. Single Subject Designs in Training Interventions for Children with Autism""; ""Appendix. Analysis of Single Subject Data Using the Beta Probability Distribution (for mathematically inclined readers)""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-59756-847-3

OCLC:

777202382