On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:57:34 -0700, Marte Fallshore >I was at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting last >weekend, and there was a talk on confidence intervals. It got me thinking >about teaching about confidence intervals before I get to hypothesis >testing and then integrating it with each hypothesis test we do. > >Has anyone out there done that? How did it go? Have you found a book >that may be does something like that? Thanks,
I would not recommend teaching confidence intervals before hypothesis testing but a smart, creative teacher can figure out how to do a variety of things "out of sequence" in the statistics course. That being said, take a look at Geoff Cumming's book "Understanding the New Statistics" which takes a very anti-null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) approach and focuses heavily on confidence intervals, effects sizes, meta-analysis, and statistical power. He has written on the use of confidence intervals by/for psychologists (a PsycInfo search will turn up useful recent articles) and provides a software package "Exploratory Software for Confidence intervals" (ESCI) which can be downloaded by anyone (it's a nice little program) at: www.thenewstatistics.com . Cumming's book is available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-The-New-Statistics-Meta-Analysis/dp/041587968X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334701971&sr=1-1 I believe that Cumming is providing a workshop on the "new statistics" at this year's APS meeting, so that might be something to keep in mind. I don't agree with Cumming on a number of issues but what do I know? My review of Cumming's book will be in PsycCritiques sometime this year and any interested person can read about my complaints there. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=17353 or send a blank email to leave-17353-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
