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In this section of the chapter, we organize our discussion through layers. The first layer has to do with the fixed or flexible nature of the design, and the second layer engages with specific types of designs. We find Colin Robson and ...
... D. 285 Russell, B. 262 Sadler, M. S. 397 Saenz, D. S. 106 Salas, E. 401 Samph, T. 258 Sampson, F. 394–5 Sanders, C. 285 Sanna, ... R. 116 Siegel, J. T. 9, 108,202,233 Siegel, P. M. 283 Siegman, C. R. 77 Sigelman, L. 474 Author Index.
In a series of papers, John Roberts and his coworkers used pile sorts and rating tasks to study how people perceive various kinds of behaviors in games (see, e.g., Roberts and Chick 1979; Roberts and Nattress 1980).
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Pearson's r is a method for examining relationships between interval/ratio variables that focuses on the coefficient, a figure indicating the degree of correlation between variables (we do not discuss how to produce coefficients here, ...
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