Experimental design: Procedures for the behavioral sciences

Recommended by: Sonia Kataria
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Content:

Research strategies and the control of nuisance variables
Experimental designs : an overview
Fundamental assumptions in analysis of variance
Completely randomized design
Multiple comparison tests
Trend analysis
General linear model approach to ANOVA
Randomized block designs
Completely randomized factorial design with two treatments
Completely randomized factorial design with three or more treatments and randomized block factorial design
Hierarchical designs
Split-plot factorial design : design with group-treatment confounding
Analysis of covariance
Latin square and related designs
Confounded factorial designs : designs with group-interaction confounding
Fractional factorial designs : designs with treatment-interaction confounding
Appendix A : rules of summation
Appendix B : rules of expectation, variance, and covariance
Appendix C : Orthagonal coefficients for unequal intervals and unequal ns
Appendix D : matrix algebra
Appendix E : tables
Appendix F : answers to starred exercises