Statistical References for the University Educator

Based on the positive feedback received during the 2007 CUE Forum, CUE SIG has decided to create research reference pages for college and university educators in Japan.

If you have a reference you would like us to consider adding, or if you have questions about statistics in general, please consider adding a topic to a CUE forum page on this web site.

Statistical References

Books

Bond, T., & Fox, C. (2007). Applying the Rasch Model (2nd ed.). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.

Elifson, K., Runyon, R., & Haber, A. (1998). Fundamentals of social statistics (3rd ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Field, A. (2005). Discovering statistics using SPSS (2nd ed.). London: Sage Publications.

Green, S., & Salkind, N. (2005). Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Hatch, E., & Lazaraton, A. (1991). The research manual: Design and statistics for applied linguistics. New York: Newbury House.

One of the few books aimed for the SLA field.

Huck, S. W. (2000). Reading Statistics and Research. New York: Longman.

A good introduction for beginning researchers. Rather than a "how to" stats book, this book describes the language and forms of statistics used in research.

Pallant, J. (2006). SPSS survival manual (2nd ed.). London: Open University Press.

As the title implies, this book is a must for those who need to survive their university statistics courses. Although it's primarily designed for psychology students, the step-by-step descriptions of how to analyze data are extremely easy to understand.

Stevens, J. P. (1992). Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2007). Using Multivariate Statistics (5th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

The "Bible" of statistics, this book is often extremely difficult to understand. However, it is almost indispensable as a research resource book in your library. Pallant (2006) makes innumerable references to it.

Journal articles

Kaiser, H. (1974). An index of factorial simplicity. Psychometrika, 39, 31-36.

Smiths, R. M. (1996). A comparison of methods for determining dimensionality in Rasch measurement. Structural Equation Modeling, 3(1), 25-40.

Wright, B. (1996). Comparing Rasch measurement and factor analysis. Structural Equation Modeling, 3(1), 3-24.

Web sites for statistics

1. Survey Monkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com

2. Effect Size Calculator: http://web.uccs.edu/lbecker/Psy590/escalc3.htm

3. Structural Equation Modeling: http://davidakenny.net/cm/causalm.htm

4. Statsoft: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

5. SPSS Survival Manual Further References: http://www.allenandunwin.com/spss2/further.htm

Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list of references. Please feel free to contact us if you have any other useful references to add!

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