Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook 4th Edition

The book itself is very helpful. It mostly focuses on the math behind the various statistical tests. I'd have liked if it spent more time talking about the theory behind what that math means. Still, if you're just looking for a book that explains what the different tests do and how to do them, then this book will get the job done. It uses a novel way of calculating ANOVAs though, using what it calls "bracket terms". This approach is pretty simple and time saving, but I think it makes the theoretical reasons for what you're doing less clear. The book also uses it's own set of terms, such as using "Y" to represent individual scores instead of the more common "x" (there's many more examples). If you've taken other stats classes before, this can be really confusing at first.My big complaint is that my book was missing pages 278-324 out of the center of the book, obvious production error. I think that's a pretty serious lapse in quality control. I don't go through each book I buy looking for missing pages so I didn't realize the omission until chapter 13 suddenly became chapter 15 as I was reading it. Unfortunately, this was after the window for refunds had closed, so I'm stuck with a book missing an entire chapter and half of two others.Check for missing sections!

A lot of writing in the beginning but great condition afterwards

I used this book in a graduate psychology stats course, and it was a very helpful resource throughout. This book is very text heavy, and is meant to read unlike some other books that may be used as-needed to look information up. The text is a little dry (it's stats, after all) but is easy to get through and understand. The examples were helpful to me in conjunction with my course material. This book might have been less helpful to me outside of a class setting, but I highly recommend it for use with a class or for someone looking for a book to read about statistics.

It's written in a way that if you're not a math expert you can follow easily enough. I do find it a bit hard to navigate and find what I am looking for though. I would have also like some more example (and a cheaper price)!

Great book. Good condition. Thank you.

I saved a lot of money by ordering this online. It is very easy to understand and breaks the concepts down. I wish it had a workbook for more application and examples of the work.

A book that does not attempt to make its subject interesting... this textbook is a thorough introduction to ANOVA and how to apply it in research. While extremely useful it was a dull read as well. If it were not required then I am not sure I would have picked it up. But considering the incompetence of my professor, this book has saved me.

For all of you stats geeks in experimental psychology/behavioral neuroscience, this is a good book to get. It was suggested to me by my stats professor as the bible for experimental design. However, if you are not in this sub-sub-population, then this may not be your kind of book.

This is an excellent book for a first graduate level course on the design of experiments. However, some of the books sold by Amazon are missing appendix B (references, author index, subject index, solutions). So buy this book, but not from Amazon.

Quite unfair