Methods for the behavioral, educational, and social sciences: an R package.

Full Abstract

Methods for the Behavioral, Educational, and Social Sciences (MBESS; Kelley, 2007b) is an open source package for R (R Development Core Team, 2007b), an open source statistical programming language and environment. MBESS implements methods that are not widely available elsewhere, yet are especially helpful for the idiosyncratic techniques used within the behavioral, educational, and social sciences. The major categories of functions are those that relate to confidence interval formation for noncentral t, F, and chi2 parameters, confidence intervals for standardized effect sizes (which require noncentral distributions), and sample size planning issues from the power analytic and accuracy in parameter estimation perspectives. In addition, MBESS contains collections of other functions that should be helpful to substantive researchers and methodologists. MBESS is a long-term project that will continue to be updated and expanded so that important methods can continue to be made available to researchers in the behavioral, educational, and social sciences.

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Author information

Author/s: Kelley, Ken (K);

Affiliation: Inquiry Methodolgy Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA. kkiii@indiana.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Behavior research methods (Behav Res Methods), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Nov; vol 39 (issue 4) : pp 979-84

Dates: Created 2008/01/10; Completed 2008/02/04;

PMID: 18183915, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Behavioral Sciences - instrumentation; methods; statistics & numerical data
Humans
Psychology, Educational - instrumentation; methods; statistics & numerical data

Psychology, Educational - instrumentation; methods; statistics & numerical data
Social Sciences - instrumentation; methods; statistics & numerical data
Software - statistics & numerical data

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