Book Reviews: Pascual Cantos Gómez

(Two notable exceptions are Larson-Hall, 2010, for SPSS, and Gries, 2013, for R.) The book's usefulness, especially as a course text, would have also been enhanced by providing sample data for students to practice running some of the analyses described. Another limitation of the text is the com...

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Published in:Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2014, Vol.36 (1), p.168
Main Author: Plonsky, Luke
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied Linguistics
Basic Skills
Factor Analysis
Language Research
Linguistics
Research methodology
Researchers
Software
Statistical Analysis
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Summary:(Two notable exceptions are Larson-Hall, 2010, for SPSS, and Gries, 2013, for R.) The book's usefulness, especially as a course text, would have also been enhanced by providing sample data for students to practice running some of the analyses described. Another limitation of the text is the complete omission of a number of very basic but equally important concepts such as confidence intervals, statistical power (coincidentally, many of the book's sample analyses appear to be lacking power), and the relative merits of statistical versus practical significance. Other less weighty oversights include discussion of covariates, commonalities among the family of statistics within the general linear model (e.g., ANOVA and multiple regression), and the value of "to what extent"-type research questions (and their corresponding analyses) compared to the common but less informative "yes/no" variety.
ISSN:0272-2631
1470-1545
DOI:10.1017/S0272263113000661