Sequential Analysis and Observational Methods for the Behavioral Sciences
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Sequential Analysis and Observational Methods for the Behavioral Sciences

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Sequential Analysis and Observational Methods for the Behavioral Sciences

About this book

Behavioral scientists – including those in psychology, infant and child development, education, animal behavior, marketing and usability studies – use many methods to measure behavior. Systematic observation is used to study relatively natural, spontaneous behavior as it unfolds sequentially in time. This book emphasizes digital means to record and code such behavior; while observational methods do not require them, they work better with them. Key topics include devising coding schemes, training observers and assessing reliability, as well as recording, representing and analyzing observational data. In clear and straightforward language, this book provides a thorough grounding in observational methods along with considerable practical advice. It describes standard conventions for sequential data and details how to perform sequential analysis with a computer program developed by the authors. The book is rich with examples of coding schemes and different approaches to sequential analysis, including both statistical and graphical means.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS AND OBSERVATIONAL METHODS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. FIGURES
  7. PREFACE
  8. 1 Introduction to Observational Methods
  9. 2 Coding Schemes and Observational Measurement
  10. 3 Recording Observational Data
  11. 4 Representing Observational Data
  12. 5 Observer Agreement and Cohen’s Kappa
  13. 6 Kappas for Point-by-Point Agreement
  14. 7 The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) for Summary Measures
  15. 8 Summary Statistics for Individual Codes
  16. 9 Cell and Summary Statistics for Contingency Tables
  17. 10 Preparing for Sequential and Other Analyses
  18. 11 Time-Window and Log-Linear Sequential Analysis
  19. 12 Recurrence Analysis and Permutation Tests
  20. EPILOGUE
  21. APPENDIX A Expected Values for Kappa Comparing Two Observers
  22. APPENDIX B Expected Values for Kappa Comparing with a Gold Standard
  23. REFERENCES
  24. INDEX