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Author by Charles S. Reichardt
Genre : Business & Economics
Editor : Guilford Publications
ISBN : 9781462540204
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File Pages : 382
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Featuring engaging examples from diverse disciplines, this book explains how to use modern approaches to quasi-experimentation to derive credible estimates of treatment effects under the demanding constraints of field settings. Foremost expert Charles S. Reichardt provides an in-depth examination of the design and statistical analysis of pretest-posttest, nonequivalent groups, regression discontinuity, and interrupted time-series designs. He details their relative strengths and weaknesses and offers practical advice about their use. Reichardt compares quasi-experiments to randomized experiments and discusses when and why the former might be a better choice. Modern moethods for elaborating a research design to remove bias from estimates of treatment effects are described, as are tactics for dealing with missing data and noncompliance with treatment assignment. Throughout, mathematical equations are translated into words to enhance accessibility.

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Author by Donald T. Campbell
Genre : Psychology
Editor : Ravenio Books
ISBN :
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File Pages : 84
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We shall examine the validity of 16 experimental designs against 12 common threats to valid inference. By experiment we refer to that portion of research in which variables are manipulated and their effects upon other variables observed. It is well to distinguish the particular role of this chapter. It is not a chapter on experimental design in the Fisher (1925, 1935) tradition, in which an experimenter having complete mastery can schedule treatments and measurements for optimal statistical efficiency, with complexity of design emerging only from that goal of efficiency. Insofar as the designs discussed in the present chapter become complex, it is because of the intransigency of the environment: because, that is, of the experimenter’s lack of complete control.

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Author by William R. Shadish
Genre : Causation
Editor : Cengage Learning
ISBN : UOM:39015061304716
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 664
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Sections include: experiments and generalised causal inference; statistical conclusion validity and internal validity; construct validity and external validity; quasi-experimental designs that either lack a control group or lack pretest observations on the outcome; quasi-experimental designs that use both control groups and pretests; quasi-experiments: interrupted time-series designs; regresssion discontinuity designs; randomised experiments: rationale, designs, and conditions conducive to doing them; practical problems 1: ethics, participation recruitment and random assignment; practical problems 2: treatment implementation and attrition; generalised causal inference: a grounded theory; generalised causal inference: methods for single studies; generalised causal inference: methods for multiple studies; a critical assessment of our assumptions.

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Author by Bruce A. Thyer
Genre : Social Science
Editor : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195387384
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File Pages : 214
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The role of group research designs to evaluate social work practice -- Pre-experimental group research designs -- Quasi-experimental group research designs -- Time-series research designs -- Evaluating and reporting quasi-experimental studies.

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Author by Donald Thomas Campbell
Genre : Experimental design
Editor :
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004536681
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 106
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Author by Christopher H. Achen
Genre : Social Science
Editor : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520332218
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 188
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

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Author by Krishan D. Broota
Genre : Psychology
Editor : New Age International
ISBN : 8122402151
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File Pages : 480
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The Book Has Been Addressed To The Students And Researchers In The Disciplines Of Psychology, Education, Sociology, Social-Work, Medicine, Management, And Allied Disciplines. It Has Been Written For Those Who Do Not Possess Sophisticated Mathematical Background. Various Designs And Their Analyses Have Been Presented In Simple Understandable Language. The Intended Emphasis Is To Make The Reader Understand The Basic Principles Of Experimental Design, Layout For Data Collection, Analysis Of Data, Interpretation Of Results Of Experimental Outcome. It Offers An Integrated Approach Placing Due Emphasis On Theory, Application, And Computational Procedures. Schematic Representations Of Analysis For Each Design Is A Novel Feature Of This Book, It Makes The Analysis Simple And Easy To Comprehend. Each Design Includes General Layout For Data Collection, Schematic Representation Of The Analysis, Followed By Numerical Example With Detailed Solution And Interpretation. Numerous Illustrations, Many From Published Research, Are Provided With The Intent To Equip The Reader To Develop Insight Into The Intricacies Of Research Strategy. Special Treatment Has Been Given To Within Subject And Mixed Designs. Multivariate Analysis Of Variance, Analysis Of Covariance, And Also Analysis Of Variance By Ranks Have Been Included.

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Author by William M. K. Trochim
Genre : Psychology
Editor : Jossey-Bass
ISBN : UOM:49015002453216
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File Pages : 132
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The intent of this volume of New Directions for Program Evaluation is to update, even to alter, our thinking about quasi-experimentation in applied social research and program evaluation. This volume makes the case that we have moved beyond the traditional thinking on quasi-experiments as a collection of specific designs and threats to validity toward a more integrated, synthetic view of quasi-experimentation as part of a general logical epistemological framework for research. This is the 31st issue of New Directions for Program Evaluation. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

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Author by William M. Holmes
Genre : Social Science
Editor : SAGE Publications
ISBN : 9781483310817
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File Pages : 361
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Using Propensity Scores in Quasi-Experimental Designs, by William M. Holmes, examines how propensity scores can be used to reduce bias with different kinds of quasi-experimental designs and to fix or improve broken experiments. Requiring minimal use of matrix and vector algebra, the book covers the causal assumptions of propensity score estimates and their many uses, linking these uses with analysis appropriate for different designs. Thorough coverage of bias assessment, propensity score estimation, and estimate improvement is provided, along with graphical and statistical methods for this process. Applications are included for analysis of variance and covariance, maximum likelihood and logistic regression, two-stage least squares, generalized linear regression, and general estimation equations. The examples use public data sets that have policy and programmatic relevance across a variety of disciplines.

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Author by Thomas D. Cook
Genre : Experimental design
Editor : Rand McNally
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038809062
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File Pages : 434
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