Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

Motivated by surveys indicating that data analyses published in top behavioral science and psychology journals between 1960 and 1982 were [Page 1449]seriously lacking in statistical power, Jacob Cohen wrote the book Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences to draw attention to the problem and to provide a handbook of statistical power analysis for behavioral scientists.

The book covers power analysis based on various statistical tests commonly used in behavioral science. These tests include the following: (a) the t test for means, (b) significance test of a product-moment correlation coefficient, (c) test of the differences between correlation coefficients, (d) test to determine whether a proportion is 0.5 and the sign test, (e) test of the differences between proportions, (f) chi-square tests for goodness of fit and ...