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In this chapter, we explore some other commonly used but less ‘traditional’ statistical procedures. While these procedures are commonly reported in behavioural and social research, they tend not to be well-covered in standard statistical texts. Procedures discussed and illustrated include: reliability analysis & classical item analysis (useful for assessing measurement quality); data screening & missing value analysis (useful for preliminary explorations looking for anomalous data patterns); confidence intervals (useful for assessing the precision of statistical estimates); bootstrapping and jackknifing (useful for estimating errors associated with statistic estimates where traditional methods are not available or do not work); time series analysis (useful for understanding data patterns over time, with or without an intervention); confirmatory factor analysis (useful for evaluating theorised factor structures); structural equation models (useful for evaluating theorised causal models); and meta-analysis (useful for exploring data patterns evident in samples of published, and occasionally unpublished, research).

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Cooksey, R.W. (2020). Other Commonly Used Statistical Procedures. In: Illustrating Statistical Procedures: Finding Meaning in Quantitative Data . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2537-7_8

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