Gone are the days when researchers and students were forced to search through stacks of journals for the best way to construct a table of results. In an engaging and accessible format, this book provides invaluable guidance on the proper table format for a wide range of statistical analyses. Each chapter is devoted to a different statistic and provides a variety of examples of how the information could best be displayed. Included for each statistic is a "Play It Safe" table that illustrates the most comprehensive formatting options. This definitive resource for how to build tables will eliminate editorial drudgery and free up your time for more gainful pursuits.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Presenting Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Tables:
It's a great and fantastic textbook hhelping me start my profssional research in International Education.
I love it very very much.
You can create any table by using this book as a guideline:
No matter how complex your table will be, if you use this book as your guideline, you will be able to create it. The reviewer who claimed this is not true probably wanted them to give him the exact table. Their book would have been 1,000+ pages long to give an example of every combination of every table. What this book gives you is the foundation upon which to build tables. Whenever you aren't sure how to build your table, just take a quick gander through the appropriate section(s) of this book, and... more info
Maybe for the APA style...:
I was deeply disappointed with the book. The tables look as done with a typewriter, good for those missing that 70's thesis. Apparently nobody told the authors that p-values are no longer to be reported as p<0.05, but with their full value. And finally, there is no "clever" solution to more complex tables, but just tons of tables with pretty standard results. What is reported in the tables is not widely applicable too. In my area - epidemiology - we do not report standard errors, we report confidence... more info
No more puzzling over tables!:
This is an invaluable resource for anyone who needs to present their research results in APA style. This is not a statistics text but rather a manual for generating tables. Each chapter focuses on a different statistic and includes a "play it safe" comprehensive table as well as several variations. Well-organized, practical, and concise.
