Helpful reference for students and researchers wishing to publish their research findings. Answers specific questions regarding the presentation of data using a variety of statistical analyses. Provides flexible tabular formats, examples, notes, and formatting tips. Softcover.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Presenting Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Tables:
It's a great and fantastic textbook hhelping me start my profssional research in International Education.
I love it very very much.
You can create any table by using this book as a guideline:
No matter how complex your table will be, if you use this book as your guideline, you will be able to create it. The reviewer who claimed this is not true probably wanted them to give him the exact table. Their book would have been 1,000+ pages long to give an example of every combination of every table. What this book gives you is the foundation upon which to build tables. Whenever you aren't sure how to build your table, just take a quick gander through the appropriate section(s) of this book, and... more info
Maybe for the APA style...:
I was deeply disappointed with the book. The tables look as done with a typewriter, good for those missing that 70's thesis. Apparently nobody told the authors that p-values are no longer to be reported as p<0.05, but with their full value. And finally, there is no "clever" solution to more complex tables, but just tons of tables with pretty standard results. What is reported in the tables is not widely applicable too. In my area - epidemiology - we do not report standard errors, we report confidence... more info
No more puzzling over tables!:
This is an invaluable resource for anyone who needs to present their research results in APA style. This is not a statistics text but rather a manual for generating tables. Each chapter focuses on a different statistic and includes a "play it safe" comprehensive table as well as several variations. Well-organized, practical, and concise.
