Table of Contents
* Planning Your Research
* Research Study Designs
* Ethical Issues of Research
* Hypothesis Development and Measurements
* Collecting Data and its Management
* Sampling Issues in Research
* Describing Your Observations
* Assessment of Risk
* Analyze Your Observations: Check Statistical Significance
* Analyze Your Observations: Estimate Confidence
* Presenting Your Observations
* The Basis for Drawing Conclusions
* Sources of Error in Studies
* Writing the Thesis/Report
* Glossary
* Appendix I: Table of Random Numbers
* Appendix II: Table of Probability from the Standard Gaussian Distribution (z test)
* Appendix III: Table of Critical Values for Chi-Square Distribution
* Appendix IV: Table of Critical Values for Student?s t Distribution
* Appendix V: Table of Student?s t Distribution: Number of Observations for Level of t Test; Single-sample t Test and Paired t Test
* Appendix VI: Table of Student?s t Distribution: Number of Observations for Paired t Test
* Appendix VII: Table of F Distribution
* Appendix VIII: Table of Critical Values for Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Two SampIe Rank Test
* Appendix IX: Table of Percentage Points for the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Sum Test
* Appendix X: Table of Critical Values of the Correlation Coefficient
* Appendix XI: Table of Critical Values of Spearman?s Correlation Coefficient
* References
* Index