Introduction
Acknowledgements
PART 1: INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS
1. Do You See What I Mean? Indices of Central Tendency
2. Maintaining Standards: Differences Between the Standard Deviation and Standard Error, and When to Use Each
3. Breaking Up is Hard to Do: The Heartbreak of Dichotomizing Continuous Data
4. Pick a Number: Sample Size and Power in Psychiatric Research
5. Speaking Graphically: An Introduction to Some Newer Graphing Techniques
6. Let Me Count the Ways: Measuring Incidences, Prevalence, and Impact in Epidemiological Studies
7. Risky Business: Making Sense of Estimates of Risk
PART 2: MORE ADVANCED STATISTICS
8. The Case of the Missing Data: Methods of Dealing with Dropouts and Other Research Vagaries
9. An Introduction to Multivariate Statistics
10. Figuring Out Factors: The Use and Misuse of Factor Analysis
11. Regression in the Service of the Superego: The Do's and Don'ts of Stepwise Multiple Regression
12. Regression Toward the Mean: Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
13. Stayin' Alive: An Introduction to Survival Analysis
14. Life After Chi-Squared: An Introduction to Log-Linear Analysis
15. Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Handling of Confounders in Research
16. Finding Our Way: An Introduction to Path Analysis
17. Building a Better Model: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling
18. Unicorns Do Exist: A Tutorial on "Proving" the Null Hypothesis
PART 3: RESEARCH METHODS
19. Reconcilable Differences: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
20. Thinking Small: Research Designs Appropriate for Clinical Practice
21. The Two "Es" of Research: Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials
PART 4: MEASUREMENT
22. A Checklist for Evaluating the Usefulness of Rating Scales
23. Learning How to Differ: Agreement and Reliability Statistics
24. What's Under the ROC? An Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
25. Measure for Measure: New Developments in Measurement and Item Response Theory
PART 5: MISCELLANEOUS
26. Putting it All Together: Using Meta-Analysis in Psychiatric Research
27. "While You're Up, Get Me a Grant": A Guide to Grant Writing
28. A Shortcut to Rejection: How Not to Write the Results Section of a Paper
INDEX