Description This textbook describes the broadening methodology spectrum of psychological measurement in order to meet the statistical needs of a Modern psychologist.
He was also a Research Fellow at the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles..
Mair holds a doctorate in Statistics and a master\'s degree in Psychology from the University of Vienna.
His research focuses on computational and applied statistics with special emphasis on psychometric methods, such as latent variable models and multivariate exploratory techniques.
About the Author Patrick Mair is Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.
Relevant courses include methods of scaling, latent variable modeling, Psychometrics for graduate students in Psychology, and multivariate methods in the social sciences.
Requiring a basic knowledge of statistical methods and R software, but written in a casual tone, this text is ideal for graduate students in psychology.
In addition to using real-life data sets to demonstrate each method, the book also reports each method in three parts-- first describing when and why to apply it, then how to compute the method in R, and finally how to present, visualize, and interpret the results.
Subsequent chapters present special techniques useful for Modern psychological applications including correlation networks, sophisticated parametric clustering techniques, longitudinal measurements on a single participant, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.
Beginning with one of the oldest psychometric model formulations, the true score model, Mair devotes the early chapters to exploring confirmatory factor analysis, Modern test theory, and a sequence of multivariate exploratory method.
The goal of this book is to give the reader a starting point when analyzing data using a particular method, including advanced versions, and to hopefully motivate him or her to delve deeper into additional literature on the method.
R has taken the field of psychology by storm, to the point that it can now safely be considered the lingua franca for statistical data analysis in psychology.
The way statistics is used, and maybe even perceived, in psychology has drastically changed over the last few years; computationally as well as methodologically.
Description This textbook describes the broadening methodology spectrum of psychological measurement in order to meet the statistical needs of a Modern psychologist
