Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics

By N. Salkind. 2006

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The impact of age-related variables on facial comparisons with images of children: algorithm and practitioner performance (2018, methodology): “They also enable comparisons between centres of the distributions (Salkind, 2006), something that is not possible with the commonly used bar charts.”
Happiness is greater in natural environments (2013, methodology): “We can account for the second using the Bonferroni correction, dividing the significance threshold (p 0.05) by the number of tests (Abdi, 2007).”
Putting Typologies to Work (2012, methodology): “Similarly, the Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics (Salkind 2007, 826, 683) adopts the fairly standard line that the ratio level of measurement “provides the richest information about the traits it measures”; among the scale types, “nominal is considered the ‘weakest’ or least precise level o”
The relationship between financial efficacy, satisfaction with remuneration and personal financial well-being (2014, background): “One of the limitations of convenience samples is that the findings cannot be generalised past the population included in the study (Salkind, 2007).”
Teaching Johnny not to fall for phish (2010, methodology): “Applying signal detection theory (SDT) to anti-phishing education We treat legitimate websites as nonsignal, and phishing websites as signal.”