Advancing quantitative methods in second language research - Plonsky, Luke (New York Routledge, 2015)
Enhancing existing quantitative methods. Statistical power, pValues, descriptive statistics, and effect sizes -- A practical guide to bootstrapping descriptive statistics, correlations, tTests, and ANOVAs -- Presenting quantitative data visually -- Meta-analyzing second language research -- Advanced and multivariate methods. Multiple regression -- Mixed effects modeling and longitudinal data analysis -- Exploratory factor analysis and principal components analysis -- Structural equation modeling in L2 research -- Cluster analysis -- Rasch analysis -- Discriminant analysis -- Bayesian informative hypothesis testing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Second language acquisition -- Research; Second language acquisition -- Data processing; Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Research; Language acquisition -- Research; Language acquisition -- Data processing; Quantitative research; Multilingual computing; Computational linguistics