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Determining sample size : balancing power, precision, and practicality / Patrick Dattalo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dattalo, Patrick.
- Series:
- Pocket guides to social work research methods.
- Pocket guides to social work research methods
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sampling (Statistics).
- Social sciences--Statistical methods.
- Social sciences.
- Social surveys--Methodology.
- Social surveys.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text describes the following available approaches for estimating sample size in social work research and discusses their strengths and weaknesses: power analysis; heuristics or rules-of-thumb; confidence intervals; computer-intensive strategies; and ethical and cost considerations.
- Contents:
- Basic terms and concepts
- Statistical power analysis
- Confidence intervals: measures of precision
- Computer-intensive methods
- Additional considerations, recommendations, and conclusions
- Worked examples.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-161) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029554-6
- 9786611374747
- 1-281-37474-1
- 0-19-804308-2
- OCLC:
- 320406292
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