APA Dictionary of Statistics and Research Methods

RR 2014/163 APA Dictionary of Statistics and Research Methods Editor in chief Sheldon Zedeck American Psychological Association Washington, DC 2014 xvii + 434 pp. ISBN 978 1 4338 1533 1 £32.50 $39.95 Available in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Africa from Eurospan

Keywords Dictionaries, Psychology, Research methods, Statistics

Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2014-0077

There is no shortage of reference material on statistical research methods: publishers have been pouring books out ever since Mulhall's classic late nineteenth century Dictionary of Statistics (Mulhall, 2000). When reviewing the Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics (Everitt and Palmer, 2011) (RR 2011/327), I noted that without stepping outside the Institute of Psychiatry library, I managed to lay my hands on the four sturdy volumes of the Encyclopedia of Qualitative Risk Management and Assessment (Melnick and Everitt, 2008), the Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science (Everitt and Howell, 2005) in another four volumes, the three volumes of the Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (Lewis-Beck et al., 2004), the more modest single-volume Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics (Chow, 2010), six hefty volumes of the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (Armitage and Colton, 1998) and the monster of them all, the 10 volumes of the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences" - now updated into a still more monstrous 16 volume second edition (Kotz, 2006). If I had hauled them all off the shelves at the same time I could have built myself a barricade stout enough to hold off an army of marauding psychologists. Since the time of that review, the ranks have swollen still further. I note with interest the Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods (Little, 2013)...