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Faithful Attraction Review

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(More customer reviews)Andrew Greeley (sociologist/priest/theologian/novelist as his interests dictate) churns out books about as rapidly as some of us put together lectures! I don't endorse all his theological work (which tilts toward the left of even modern Catholic intellectuals), nor do I approve all the notions championed in his novels (though I've found them readable and generally inoffensive), but I've usually found his sociological studies useful.
In Faithful Attraction: Discovering Intimacy, Love and Fidelity in American Marriage (NY: Tom Doherty Associates, c. 1991), he draws on the most trustworthy of recent public opinion polls to validate the soundness of marriage in America. "This is a report on fidelity and intimacy in American marriage based on the first national probability sample study ever attempted on love and intimacy among married Americans. The typical finding of the study, as hinted by the title, is that fidelity is common in American marriage, even epidemic. Indeed it might be called pandemic rather than epidemic" (p. 20).
Rather than relying on impressionistic, anecdotal, journalistic accounts, frequently erroneous popular opinion, or skewed "polls" like the oft-cited (and notoriously-flawed) Kinsey Report or more recent Hite Reports, Greeley grounds this study in a 1989-1990 Gallup Poll, "the first full-scale national probability sample study of sexuality and fidelity in marriage" (pp. 24-25) and another equally careful research endeavor. To the extent we can find accurate sociological data regarding the subject, Greeley provides it.
Given the largely negative press about marriage and family, evident in a 1987 Newsweek cover story which prodded Greeley's study, this work provides a healthy, encouraging antidote. For he argues--and provides the data needed--that marriages in this country remain solidly monogamous and strong (especially where religious faith exists) and provide couples maximal happiness in life. There's no ignoring the reality of divorce, which is not treated in this study, but among those who are married there is much to applaud.
Throughout the various items presented, one factor emerges: religion improves marriage. "Religion is by far the most powerful correlate of marriage attitudes and behavior we have yet discussed in this book. Although many journalists and social scientists assume that secularization is a demonstrated fact, there is no evidence to support this assumption in the United Sates. Moreover, there is no stronger predictor of marital happiness than religious devotion" (p. 221).
Spouses who share religious convictions "are 27 percentage points more likely to report agreement on general values," and, even more impressive, the percentage rises to 36 if they go to church each week (p. 55). Only 11% of those who pray together think divorce might be possible, compared to 30% of those who don't. Still more: "only 1% of those who pray together often and report the highest quality of sex think divorce is possible" (p. 63). "God and pleasure are, quite literally, a hard combination to beat" (p. 69).
Nearly one-third of the respondents regularly pray with their spouse. "Whether they pray often together or not is a very powerful correlate of marital happiness, the most powerful we have yet discovered. Seventy-five percent of those who pray say that the marriage is very happy, as opposed to 57% of those who do not pray so often" (p. 229). Still more: "Prayer, it is worth noting, is a much more powerful predictor of marital satisfaction than frequency of sexual intercourse--though the combination of sex and prayer correlates with very, very high levels of marital fulfillment" (p. 230).
Despite the generally up-beat tone of this tome, there are some discouraging words. Divorce continues to rip apart marriages and families--nearly one in every two of today's marriages seem destined to dissolve. Divorce leaves women, especially, impoverished and disadvantaged. In almost requiring that women work, modern society has placed considerable strain on those try to sustain both marriage and vocation. Greeley's study shows that today's working women are less happy than housewives of an earlier generation--but they are not less happy with marriage. What distresses them is a society which demands they work full-time as a career woman and still be a full-time mother.
Though there are certainly problems in the contemporary home, this book provides substantial reasons, especially for Christians, to face the future with confidence. Marriage and the family have survived and will survive. And it's nice to have some data to fuel our hopes.

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A guide to marital happiness discusses the importance of money, what kind of sex matters most, children, and the working mother, and shows readers what happy marriages have in common. Reprint. AB.

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Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using SPSS Review

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(More customer reviews)after trying to read through this needlessly complicated tome of gibberish, the only thing i've learned about stats is to hire an analyst.

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This book is written from the perspective that statistics is an integrated set of tools used together to uncover the story contained in numerical data. Accordingly, the book comes with a disk containing a series of real data sets to motivate discussions of appropriate methods of analysis. The presentation is based on a conceptual approach supported by an understanding of underlying mathematical foundations. Students learn that more than one method of analysis is typically needed and that an ample characterization of results is a critical component of any data analytic plan. The use of real data and SPSS to perform computations and create graphical summaries enables a greater emphasis on conceptual understanding and interpretation.

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Null-A Continuum Review

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(More customer reviews)Null-A Continuum (2008) is a SF novel within the Null-A series. It is a sequel to the original sequence by A.E. Van Vogt. In the previous volumes, non-Aristotelian logic is a system that provides a sane view of life. Null-A has developed various means of stripping the emotional interpretations from thoughts, including the cortical-thalamic pause.
The Games Machine was built on Earth to select the rulers. The Machine tested the minds of applicants and rejected those who had not mastered and internalized Null-A principles. Some were given posts in the Earth government, but those who scored the highest were allowed to live on Venus among a same population.
But the Games Machine was subverted through the action of a distorter, a device for shifting matter and energy through space. The device had been supplied by Thorson, the commander of an invasion force from the Greatest Empire. President Hardy and his gang ruled the Earth under the Empire.
Gosseyn came to the city of the Games Machine to test his knowledge of Null-A. Yet he was exposed as an impostor by someone from his own village and was thrown out of his hotel. Then he met a girl who also lacked a place to stay.
Gosseyn was later killed and returned in a new body. Gosseyn Two met Thorson and then discovered that he had a second brain. After killing the Imperial commander, Gosseyn Two discovered that Lavoisseur was another copy of himself.
Gosseyn Two discovered more about the Greatest Empire and foiled the invasion with a little help from Crang. He met Leej -- a Predictor -- on Yalerta. Then another version of himself was awakened accidentally. Eventually, Gosseyn Three captured and imprisoned Eron.
In this novel, Gilbert Gosseyn is a man with a double brain and serial immortality. If he dies, his memories are transferred to a younger body. His second brain provides the ability to shift himself and other things through space like a distorter. But his earliest memories are lies. Who has created him and why?
Lavoisseur was the head of the Semantic Institute, the organization that built the Games Machine. He was an older copy of Gosseyn, but has additional memories. Gosseyn suspects that he is the Chessplayer, the man who is manipulating him.
X was a member of President Hardy's gang. He was also another Gosseyn body who was damaged and had a higher metabolism. This allowed his thoughts to be received by Lavoisseur. Apparently he was planted on Hardy as a source of information.
Eldred Crang is a Venusian detective who discovered the invasion forces and infiltrated the Imperial organization. Later, Crang returned to the Greatest Empire as Patricia's husband.
Erno the Red is the Emperor of the Greatest Empire, the largest principality in the galaxy. He has the ability to see through walls.
Patricia Hardy is the woman who Gosseyn remembers as his wife. But she was also the daughter of President Hardy and the sister of Eron. So who is she?
In this story, Gosseyn Two is visiting Nirene. As the space liner is making its last distorter jump to the planet, Gosseyn is separated from the liner and diverted to an apartment. There Gosseyn finds the charred body of Crang and indications that Patricia has been there.
Gosseyn decides that he is on Nirene. Then he uses a device in the apartment to view the murder. He sees Eron appear as a Shadow and kill Crang.
Then the police appear and Gosseyn is arrested. At the secret police headquarters, Gosseyn learns that agents of the defeated Greatest Empire are active within the Interplanetary League. They have also held back some Imperial warships.
Gosseyn visits various planets within the League and discovers that Imperial agents have infiltrated many of them. Solar systems start disappearing into Shadow. Then he gains the memories of Gosseyn Three from the Shadow Galaxy.
Later Gosseyn meets X in a younger body. X is still insane and is now working for Eron. He commits multiple murders and leaves Gosseyn to take the blame. He also destroys a lie detector before he shifts out of the area.
Gosseyn contacts the Venusian Null-As and reports his findings. They analyze the lie detector and start working on countermeasures. Then Gosseyn finds himself within false realities or alternate timelines. In some, he meets future versions of himself, but in others he meets the Ydd, a corporate entity that exists outside the physical universe.
This tale takes Gosseyn and his avatars further into the conspiracy to change the future. He discovers that he knows much more than expected. And he keeps encountering Patricia.
The author displays an amazing familiarity with Van Vogt's works. This story is based on Van Vogt's fourth SF novel -- World of Null-A -- and its sequels. But it also contains scenarios and themes from his first three novels -- Voyage of the Space Beagle, Slan, and The Book of Ptath -- as well as elements from The Universe Maker and probably other works.
Highly recommended for Van Vogt fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of mind training, superpowers, and puzzling plots.
-Arthur W. Jordin

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Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection: Personnel Assessement and Selection Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is very comprehensive and provides useful information about all aspects of personnel selection and assessment, including job analysis. It also points to further reading. I highly recommend it.

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Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection discusses the essentials that managers and other well-educated people should know about the assessment processes so widely used in contemporary society—and so widely not understood. It emphasizes that good prediction requires well-formed hypotheses about personal characteristics that may be related to valued behavior at work and the need for developing a theory of the attribute one hypothesizes as a predictor—a thought process too often missing from work on selection procedures. In addition, it explores such topics as team-member selection, situational judgment tests, non-traditional tests, individual assessment, and testing for diversity. The goal is to produce an accessible guide to assessment that covers basic and advanced concepts in a straight-forward, readable style. It provides a review of the most relevant statistical concepts and modern selection practices that will equip the reader with the tools needed to be competent consumers of assessment procedures and practices, and to be well-informed about the kinds of questions to be answered in evaluating them.This book will appeal to instructors of advanced undergraduate and master's level courses on personnel selection and assessment. If supplemented by other readings on selected topics, it would be useful in doctoral seminars. Also, students interested in becoming users of research-based assessment and selection information and techniques will find it useful.

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Apocalypse When?: Calculating How Long the Human Race Will Survive (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Science) Review

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(More customer reviews)Full disclosure: I used to work for the author.
He is methodical and his logic is solid and he predicts the end of civilization is near. So I spent some time trying to refute this book and I can't. The author has presented this line of reasoning in lectures and found that no one takes his prediction with the weight that it deserves. He faults the audience members, but I suspect most people following this line of argument go into denial. It is natural when faced with the news of our demise to go into denial or try to fight the reasoning behind this.
It is like the behavior of people in a company that is failing and nearing its end. I've seen this a few times where many hold on to the notion that it will turn around, and they ride it all the way into the ground.
There is in the book a few hints of what could save us, but each is given little chance of succeeding. The optimist in me will fight for one of these. The scientist in me will continue to seek a flaw in Well's reasoning. The denial in me will try to push it out of my mind.

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This book will be a key trailblazer in a new and upcoming field. The author’s predictive approach relies on simple and intuitive probability formulations that will appeal to readers with a modest knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, and statistics. Wells’ carefully erected theory stands on a sure footing and thus should serve as the basis of many rational predictions of survival in the face of not only natural disasters such as hits by asteroids or comets, but perhaps more surprisingly from man-made hazards arising from genetic engineering or robotics.Any formula for predicting human survival will invite controversy. Dr Wells counters anticipated criticism with a thorough approach in which four lines of reasoning are used to arrive at the same survival formula. One uses empirical survival statistics for business firms and stage shows. Another is based on uncertainty of risk rates. The third, more abstract, invokes Laplace’s principle of insufficient reason and involves an observer’s random arrival in the lifetime of the entity (the human race) in question. The fourth uses Bayesian theory.The author carefully explains and gives examples of the conditions under which his principle is valid and provides evidence that can counteract the arguments of critics who would reject it entirely. His deflection of possible criticisms results from two major premises: selecting the proper random variable and “reference class" to make predictions, and the recognition that if one does not know the law that governs a process, then the best prediction that can be made is his own formula.

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Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors and Successful Interventions Review

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(More customer reviews)The text outlines a concept of risk and protective factors along the path of life, which are shown to either contribute or protect individuals and communities from Juvenile Offending.
The book is a must for those wanting to consider proven and efficient alterntives to the 'get tough approach', but don't fear it isn't the soft social worker approach either. It's based on the theory of Developemental Crime Prevention and looks at a combination of sanctions, interventions and community actions which can reduce juvenile and later adult offending.
A must for those with an interst in Crime Prevention !

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Detailed and comprehensive, this volume presents authoritative discussions by leading scholars on issues surrounding serious and violent juvenile offenders. This population is responsible for a disproportionate percentage of all crime and poses the greatest challenge to juvenile justice policymakers. This volume integrates knowledge about risk and protective prevention programs, so that conclusions from each area can inform the other.

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Forecasting in Business and Economics, Second Edition (Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Mathematical Economics) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book, if you are looking for a graduate level experience -- but beware. There are 2 texts from 1986 with the same ISBN number. The first is a Hardcover book by Granger and is an undergraduate text. The second is a Paperback book by Granger and Newbold and is the real deal for grad students interested in time series analysis. So if you want this book, be sure to order the Paperback by Newbold. Good Luck! I received the Hardback copy twice in error before receiving the great paperback.

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This thoroughly revised second edition of an upper-level undergraduate/graduate text describes many major techniques of forecasting used in economics and business. This is the only time series book to concentrate on the forecasting of economic data and to cover such a broad range of topics. Key Features* Gives a complete description, with applications, of the Box-Jenkins single series modeling techniques* Extends the Box-Jenkins techniques to multivariate cases* Compares forecasts from purely statistical and econometric models* Pays careful attention to such problems as how to evaluate and compare forecasts* Covers nonstationary and nonlinear models, co-integration and error-correction models

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A Dynamic Cascade Model of the Development of Substance - Use Onset (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development) Review

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(More customer reviews)Although much of psychology involves a rather univariate approach, every once in a while a publication comes along that focuses on a multivariate explanation that recognizes the complexity and richness of human development. This is one such publication. Focusing on early substance abuse, the authors compare such development to a stream "meandering through a meadow", joined by other streams and gathering momentum, growing into a "rushing rapid that cascades over rocks", but with various deflections from rocks along the way (the "dynamic cascade"). The primary "streams" include biological factors, social ecology, early parenting, early peer relations, adolescent parenting, and adolescent peer relations, and although the "streams" individually result in modest effects, in combination they are very predictive, early influences are primary, adaptation is a continuous but a reciprocal transactional process, sensitive periods are important, and there are always opportunities for change. Although at times the statistical analysis of a significant amount of data can be a bit tedious, I was very impressed with this book, and think it represents a significant step forward in the understanding and potential prevention of early onset substance use. I recommend it highly!

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The book offers an extensive exploration of the childhood factors that can lead to substance abuse.
Puts forward a dynamic cascade model of the development of adolescent substance-use onset
Model is based on broad sampling of children from prekindergarten through to Grade 12
The results offer practical suggestions for interventions, public policies, and economics of substance-use and future inquiry

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Principles of Therapeutic Change that Work (Oxford Series in Clinical Psychology) Review

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(More customer reviews)I don't know if this applies as a full review or just a few quick notes/thoughts.
I bought this book recently because I am interested in optimizing my own therapeutic effectiveness, and thought the book would provide some good techniques or principles that would guide my time with clients.
Unfortunately, the book is heavy in theory and written by persons who are obviously good at research and statistics, but not good at communicating their findings in a way that can be applied.
I'm not saying not to buy the book, but expect to do a lot of work getting through this book, and even more translating it from Professional Journal speak into something with utility for your practice.
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Final Note: If you're interested in learning telephone or online counseling, this book is really good: The Therapist's Clinical Guide to Online Counseling and Telephone Counseling: The Definitive Training Guide for Clinical Practice

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This book presents the findings of a Joint Presidential Task Force of the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of APA) and of the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research.This task force was charged with integrating two previous task force findings which addressed, respectively, Treatments That Work (Division 12, APA), and Relationships That Work (Division 29, APA).This book transcends particular models of psychotherapy and treatment techniques to define treatments in terms of cross-cutting principles of therapeutic change.It also integrates relationship and participant factors with treatment techniques and procedures, giving special attention to the empirical grounding of multiple contributors to change.The result is a series of over 60 principles for applying treatments to four problem areas: depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and substance abuse disorders. This book explains both principles that are common to many problem areas and those that are specific to different populations in a format that is designed to help the clinician optimize treatment planning.

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Beyond Cholesterol: 7 Life-Saving Heart Disease Tests That Your Doctor May Not Give You (Lynn Sonberg Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)What I think is particularly significant about this book is its emphasis on the role of inflammation in heart disease and all the markers of inflammation that can be tested for. A focus on cholesterol is not enough.
The cause of inflammation should also be emphasized and I would have suggested a bigger emphasis on the role of pathogens in inflammation, in particular, bacteria, such as Chlamydiae pneumoniae and Mycoplasma.
These and other pathogens may also partly explain why so many people have trouble exercising and losing weight. As they age, they acquire more pathogens that cause health problems that accumulate over time. This may be associated with many diseases of aging. The Autoimmunity Research Foundation is just one group looking into this.
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The latest scientific research has discovered that cholesterol levels are not the definitive indicator of heart disease risk. In fact, there are seven tests that can reveal much about the state of the heart and cardiovascular system. Dr. Torelli explains what the tests are, what they reveal, and how to get them. He also includes information on womens heart health (heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women; ten percent of women ages 45 to 64 are living with heart disease), and dietary and lifestyle factors that impact heart disease.Beyond Cholesterol includes information on:C-Reactive Protein Fibrinogen Homocysteine Fasting Insulin Ferritin Lipoprotein(a) Calcium Heart ScanCholesterol tests are valuable but they dont tell the whole story. This book explains how to get the most important information needed to stop heart disease in its tracks.

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Evidence-Based Diagnosis (Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology) Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm always surprised and a little dismayed by the relative lack of evidence that seems to go in to so much clinical decision-making, especially when it comes to diagnostic tests. Its therefore gratifying to see Evidence-Based Diagnosis make the case for a more thoughtful and empirically grounded approach to treatment. This book is wonderfully clear and simple, presenting sophisticated statistical ideas with just enough math and no more. Clinicians and researchers should find the discussion of how to use data for decisions both engaging and useful - Josh Angrist

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Evidence-Based Diagnosis is a textbook about diagnostic, screening, and prognostic tests in clinical medicine. The authors' approach is based on many years of experience teaching physicians in a clinical research training program. Although requiring only a minimum of mathematics knowledge, the quantitative discussions in this book are deeper and more rigorous than in most introductory texts. The book includes numerous worked examples and 60 problems (with answers) based on real clinical situations and journal articles. The book will be helpful and accessible to anyone seeking to select, develop, or market medical tests. Topics covered include: the diagnostic process, test reliability and accuracy, likelihood ratios, and ROC curves, testing and treatment thresholds, critical appraisal of studies of diagnostic, screening and prognostic tests, test independence and methods of combining tests, quantifying treatment benefits using randomized trials and observational studies, Bayesian interpretation of P values and confidence intervals and challenges for evidence-based diagnosis and evidence-based medicine.

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Analysis of Customer Satisfaction Data Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is for advanced practitioners in marketing, contact center/customer care and other business and technical domains that need to gather and quantitatively analyze customer satisfaction data. The focus is customer satisfaction for services more than products, but it can be used effectively in either scenario.
The introduction covers prior work in the field and lays the groundwork for subsequent chapters that cover instrumentation, data preparation, an analysis framework and models.
The key strengths of this book are the framework, which is highly structured, the models and exploratory data analysis. I liked the discussion of regression analysis problems, and the chapters on causal modeling and interdependency models. I also liked the fact that this book is short, crammed with information and techniques, and does not lose its focus. You will need to brush up on your math skills because while this book reads well and is fast-paced, it is also detailed and is heavy with quantitative methods. If I had to recommend one book on customer satisfaction data analysis this is it.

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Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods: Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a marvelous introductory statistics book. In the first five chapters Wilcox presents the classical statistical methods with simplicity and great care. Emphasis is properly placed on the assumptions of the methods and the fact that many times important assumptions are violated in practice. This is all done in the first five chapters. Then in chapters 6 - 12 he provides alternative modern methods that can work better than the classical ones when the assumptions fail.
Chapter 6 is on bootstrap. Chapter 8 covers robust measures of location. Chapter 9 covers statistical inference based on robust measures of location. Chapter 10 deals with nonparametric and robust measures of association. Chapter 11 covers robust estimates of location and Chapter 12 "Alternative Strategies" includes rank test, permutation tests and multiple comparison issues.
At the beginning of Wilcox's book there are three precious quotes that you should appreciate. 1. "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is not hope for it" Albert Einstein. 2. "Everyone believes in the [normal] law of errors, the experimenters because they think it is a mathematical theorem, the mathematicians because they think it is an experimental fact." Henri Poincare. 3. "Each generation that discovers something from its experience must pass that on, but it must pass that on with a delicate balance of respect and disrespect, so that the race ... does not inflict its errors too rigidly on its youth, but it does pass on the accumulated wisdom plus the wisdom that it may not be wisdom." Richard Feynman.
These quotes were well chosen to fit the theme of the book and represent the wisdom of three great men from the 19th and 20th Centuries.

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Conventional statistical methods have a very serious flaw. They routinely miss differences among groups or associations among variables that are detected by more modern techniques - even under very small departures from normality. Hundreds of journal articles have described the reasons standard techniques can be unsatisfactory, but simple, intuitive explanations are generally unavailable. Improved methods have been derived, but they are far from obvious or intuitive based on the training most researchers receive. Situations arise where even highly nonsignificant results become significant when analyzed with more modern methods. Without assuming any prior training in statistics, Part I of this book describes basic statistical principles from a point of view that makes their shortcomings intuitive and easy to understand. The emphasis is on verbal and graphical descriptions of concepts. Part II describes modern methods that address the problems covered in Part I. Using data from actual studies, many examples are included to illustrate the practical problems with conventional procedures and how more modern methods can make a substantial difference in the conclusions reached in many areas of statistical research.Rand Wilcox is a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Psychological Society. Dr. Wilcox currently serves as an associate editor of Computational Statistics & Data Analysis and Psychometrika. He has published over 165 articles in a wide range of statistical journals and he is the author of three other books on statistics.|"The volume is a jewel of direct explanations and information necessary for a good understanding of analysis of data, aimed at ordinary researchers who must try to present reasonable interpretable accounts of their data or judge when to abandon a particular strategy..."|- Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2002

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Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) (English and English Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a well written, detailed book that covers gender differences in the course of antisocial behavior from early childhood to early adulthood. It also does an excellent job of examining whether there are gender differences in the predictors of antisocial behavior, as well as the consequences of antisocial behavior. I routinely use this book for a "Women and Crime" class I teach, instead of using feminist grounded books. This book provides an objective view of gender and antisocial behavior, rather than the traditional subjective/ideological perspective you find in other books on gender and antisocial behavior. This is definately a must read for anyone who is interested in gender and antisocial behavior.

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Why are females rarely antisocial and males antisocial so often? This is one of the key questions addressed in a fresh approach to sex differences in the causes, course and consequences of antisocial behavior. A multidisciplinary team of authors present all-new findings from the landmark Dunedin Longitudinal Study and also provide new insights into such topics as the importance of puberty, diagnostic issues in psychiatry, the problem of domestic violence and the intergenerational transmission of antisocial behavior.

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A First Course in Structural Equation Modeling Review

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(More customer reviews)This book does a good job of explaining the basic concepts involved in SEM, path analysis, and CFA in easy to understand terms. Also, it lays out syntax and output for running popular SEM programs, such as LISREL, EQS, and Mplus. This book is perfect for the person who is trying to learn SEM on their own. I think it gives you enough to be able to know how to run a SEM, but it isn't enough to really make you a pro at it.

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In this book, authors Tenko Raykov and George A. Marcoulides introduce students to the basics of structural equation modeling (SEM) through a conceptual, nonmathematical approach. For ease of understanding, the few mathematical formulas presented are used in a conceptual or illustrative nature, rather than a computational one. Featuring examples from EQS, LISREL, and Mplus, A First Course in Structural Equation Modeling is an excellent beginner's guide to learning how to set up input files to fit the most commonly used types of structural equation models with these programs. The basic ideas and methods for conducting SEM are independent of any particular software. Highlights of the second edition include:• review of latent change (growth) analysis models at an introductory level; •coverage of the popular Mplus program; •updated examples of LISREL and EQS; and •a CD that contains all of the text's LISREL, EQS, and Mplus examples.A First Course in Structural Equation Modeling is intended as an introductory book for students and researchers in psychology, education, business, medicine, and other applied social, behavioral, and health sciences with limited or no previous exposure to SEM. A prerequisite of basic statistics through regression analysis is recommended. The book frequently draws parallels between SEM and regression, making this prior knowledge helpful.

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