The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Volume 3

Austin Lee Nichols is Associate Professor of Organizational Psychology at Central University in Vienna, Austria. Prior to his current position, he worked in various faculty and research positions around the world in both Psychology and Management. He has published in a journals across a variety of research disciplines and has won awards for his teaching, research, and service, from various global institutions. John E. Edlund is Professor of Psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, and serves as the Research Director of Psi Chi: The International Honor Society in Psychology. He has won numerous awards related to teaching and is passionate about the improvement of research methods and the dissemination of psychological knowledge to the world.

• Preface; Part I. Analysis Tools: 1. SPSS: statistical package for the social sciences Duncan Cramer; 2. Reproducible science with R Andy P. Field and Teresa B. Gibson; 3. User-friendly Bayesian and frequentist statistics with JASP Ruth V. Walker and Julie Madden; 4. SAS® software for the social and behavioral sciences research Ravindra Khattree and Anuradha Roy; 5. Mplus: an overview of its unique analysis capabilities Bengt O. Muthén; 6. STATA Ulrich Kohler; 7. Unveiling insights: NVivo in qualitative research Popi Sotiriadou and Mohsen Loghmani; Part II. Analytical Considerations: 8. Missing data Gerko Vink and Stef van Buuren; 9. Detecting insufficient effort responding to questionnaires: techniques and practical recommendations Jason L. Huang and Ran Huang; 10. Validating statistical assumptions for common statistical techniques Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam; 11. Data transformations Jason W. Osborne; 12. Measurement equivalence Jan Cieciuch, Eldad Davidov and Peter Schmidt; 13. Measures of association: estimates, P-values, and statistical tests Sander Greenland; Part III. Advanced Quantitative Approaches: 14. Non-linear time series analyses Margaret C. Macpherson, Michael J. Richardson and Rachel W. Kallen; 15. Advanced inferential analyses Vincenzo Guerriero, Roberta Alilla, Giulia Maria Bellucci, Flora De Natale and Barbara Parisse, Marco Tallini; 16. Mediation and moderation analysis Amanda J. Fairchild, Donna L. Coffman, Dexin Shi, Sarfaraz Serang and David P. MacKinnon; 17. Moderated mediation and (Not) 'Mediated Moderation' Andrew F. Hayes and The Ton Vuong; 18. Advanced Bayesian analyses Yasir Atalan and Jeff Gill; 19. Item response theory and modeling Tenko Raykov; 20. Advances in confirmatory factor analysis Michael T. Moore; 21. Multivariate longitudinal data analyses Silvia Bianconcini and Silvia Cagnone; 22. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM): a rapidly emerging SEM tool Joseph F. Hair, Jr., Misty A. Sabol and Jeffrey J. Risher; 23. Advanced meta-analytic techniques Mike W.-L. Cheung and Suzanne Jak; 24. Signal detection theory Michael S. Landy; 25. Using computer simulations to study social dynamics Francesco Renzini and Flaminio Squazzoni; Part IV. Advanced Qualitative Approaches: 26. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis Evan John Douglas; 27. Practicing reflexivity Linda Finlay; 28. Researcher-as-instrument in qualitative research Michelle Miller-Day; 29. Transcription in qualitative research Christina Davidson; 30. Thematic analysis Nikki Hayfield and Gareth Terry; 31. Discourse analysis Jennifer Andrus; 32. Narrative analysis Dorien Van De Mieroop and Kim Schoofs; 33. Transformer models Martin Popel, Jindřich Libovický, Zdeněk Kasner and Ondřej Dušek; 34. Systematic reviews Katy Sutcliffe, Emma France, Angela Harden and James Thomas.