Guide for the Statistically Perplexed

David L. Streiner is a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and senior scientific editor of Health Reports.

• IntroductionAcknowledgementsPART 1: INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS1. Do You See What I Mean? Indices of Central Tendency2. Maintaining Standards: Differences Between the Standard Deviation and Standard Error, and When to Use Each3. Breaking Up is Hard to Do: The Heartbreak of Dichotomizing Continuous Data4. Pick a Number: Sample Size and Power in Psychiatric Research5. Speaking Graphically: An Introduction to Some Newer Graphing Techniques6. Let Me Count the Ways: Measuring Incidences, Prevalence, and Impact in Epidemiological Studies7. Risky Business: Making Sense of Estimates of RiskPART 2: MORE ADVANCED STATISTICS8. The Case of the Missing Data: Methods of Dealing with Dropouts and Other Research Vagaries9. An Introduction to Multivariate Statistics10. Figuring Out Factors: The Use and Misuse of Factor Analysis11. Regression in the Service of the Superego: The Do’s and Don’ts of Stepwise Multiple Regression12. Regression Toward the Mean: Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment13. Stayin’ Alive: An Introduction to Survival Analysis14. Life After Chi-Squared: An Introduction to Log-Linear Analysis15. Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Handling of Confounders in Research16. Finding Our Way: An Introduction to Path Analysis17. Building a Better Model: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling18. Unicorns Do Exist: A Tutorial on “Proving” the Null HypothesisPART 3: RESEARCH METHODS19. Reconcilable Differences: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods20. Thinking Small: Research Designs Appropriate for Clinical Practice21. The Two “Es” of Research: Efficacy and Effectiveness TrialsPART 4: MEASUREMENT22. A Checklist for Evaluating the Usefulness of Rating Scales23. Learning How to Differ: Agreement and Reliability Statistics24. What’s Under the ROC? An Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves25. Measure for Measure: New Developments in Measurement and Item Response TheoryPART 5: MISCELLANEOUS26. Putting it All Together: Using Meta-Analysis in Psychiatric Research27. “While You’re Up, Get Me a Grant”: A Guide to Grant Writing28. A Shortcut to Rejection: How Not to Write the Results Section of a PaperINDEX

‘An easy to read collection of excellent tutorials on selected areas of statistics, measurement, and to a lesser extent, research methods… I can recommend this volume without hesitation.’ - Ryan J. Van Lieshout (Archives of Women’s Mental Health – June 2013)