The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative methods, Vol.1: Foundations

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Oxford Library of Psychology......Page 8
About the Editor......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Table of Contents......Page 18
1. Introduction......Page 20
2. The Philosophy of Quantitative Methods......Page 26
3. Quantitative Methods and Ethics......Page 51
4. Special Populations......Page 74
5. Theory Construction, Model Building, and Model Selection......Page 101
6. Teaching Quantitative Psychology......Page 124
7. Modern Test Theory......Page 137
8. The IRT Tradition and its Applications......Page 163
9. Survey Design and Measure Development......Page 189
10. High-Stakes Test Construction and Test Use......Page 208
11. Effect Size and Sample Size Planning......Page 225
12. Experimental Design for Causal Inference: Clinical Trials and Regression Discontinuity Designs......Page 242
13. Matching and Propensity Scores......Page 256
14. Designs for and Analyses of Response Time Experiments......Page 279
15. Observational Methods......Page 305
16. A Primer of Epidemiologic Methods, Concepts, and Analysis with Examples and More Advanced Applications within Psychology......Page 324
17. Program Evaluation: Principles, Procedures, and Practices......Page 351
18. Overview of Statistical Estimation Methods......Page 380
19. Robust Statistical Estimation......Page 407
20. Bayesian Statistical Methods......Page 426
21. Mathematical Modeling......Page 457
22. Monte Carlo Analysis in Academic Research......Page 473
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E......Page 500
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M......Page 502
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R......Page 504
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Y......Page 507