This text has three main purposes. The first purpose is to facilitate conceptual understanding of multivariate statistical methods by limiting the technical nature of the discussion of those concepts and focusing on their practical applications. The multivariate statistical methods covered in this text are factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA), analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), multivariat…
Statistical power analysis has revolutionized the ways in which behavioral and social scientists plan, conduct, and evaluate their research. Similar developments in the statistical analysis of incomplete (missing) data are gaining more widespread applications as software catches up with theory.