Listed below are several links to Web sites that include information about topics covered in this chapter. We will be periodically updating this list to keep it fresh and interesting. If you know of a good site on a topic of relevance to this chapter, we would appreciate hearing about it. Contact Mike Raulin with your suggestions. We will be sure to give you credit for suggesting high quality sites in future updates.
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Many children fear being separated from their parents or care
givers.
Children and Fear
An overview of childhood fears and their treatment.
Cancer is Children's Biggest Fear
Children fear losing a loved one to cancer, even more than the fear
war or terrorism.
Anxiety, Fears, and Phobias
From the Kids Health for Parents website.
Dissertation Proposal Workshop
A practically oriented site from the University of California at
Berkeley for people who are planning to conduct a research project.
Institutional Review Board Guidebook: Consideration of Research
Design
This gives you insights into how and why the research design is an
ethical issue to be considered by the IRB. This manual is published
by the Health and Human Services Administration of the federal
government.
Choose Your Research Methods Wisely
A feature of the gradPSYCH portion of the APA website. This is
geared to helping graduate students in psychology navigate grad
school and prepare for careers in psychology.
Research Design Lessons
A series of downloadable lessons on various topics of research
design, courtesy of Dr. Karl L. Wuensch of the Department of
Psychology at East Carolina University.
Quantitative Research Design
A discussion of quantitative research methods.
Factorial Designs: A Simple Example
Illustrates the basics of factorial designs with a concrete example.
Factorial Design Analysis
A brief discussion of the procedures for analyzing factorial
designs.
Two-Way ANOVA
Detailed description of the two-way ANOVA.
Understanding ANOVA Visually
This hands-on site allows you to see how group differences affect
the ANOVA computations. Great for giving you a conceptual feel for
this complex procedure.
HyperStat Online's Introduction to ANOVA
A fairly detailed discussion of ANOVA and its related topics.
SPSS Topics: ANOVA
Discusses extensively the issues surrounding ANOVA.
Power Analysis for ANOVA Designs
This site not only discusses the issue of power in ANOVA designs,
but also has a little program for computing power.
A New View of Statistics
Discussion of both ANOVA and ANCOVA models (Note: high level).
Statistical Analysis of the Analysis of Covariance Design
Discusses the mathematical underpinnings of this approach.
Covariance Designs
Description of the principles behind ANCOVA, with liberal use of
scatter plots and regression lines.
Overview of MANOVA
Includes two PowerPoint lectures on the topic.
MANOVA
An overview on the topic.
Multivariate Statistics: An Overview of the MANOVA Procedure
The title says it all.
MANOVA
A PowerPoint lecture on the topic.