Evaluating research articles from start to finish - Book Report/Review Example

involves procedures that attempt to reduce a large set of correlated variables to a smaller set of correlated variables to a smaller set of correlated variables to a smaller set of derived variables. Girden Roberts have been a major contribution to the field of research. He has earned different awards in the field. In the book the author with a greater coverage of design and analysis of data uses other articles to critique the answers and put the final report on the book. In 1987,  he enrolled for the faculty in the Center for Psychological Studies at Nova University, teaching courses in family therapy, psychopathology, statistical computing and multivariate statistical methods.

From 1990 to 1993, he served as the Center’s Director of Research Support and Training, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990 and Professor a few years later. The author received a bachelor degree in in psychology at the University of Connecticut in 1978 and proceeded to attain another degree in clinical psychology from the University of Missouri-St Louis in 1985. Robert then made a move to Portland to take a research and he acted as a vice president with the management research group.

For the past decade he has been actively engaged in research and consultation with academic, governmental, and business organizations in North America, Western Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. The author has also participated in writing other books in statistics and research. The other book that have been written by the author is ANOVA which mainly is on repeated measures. The author has also been able to receive several awards as an author and the departments that he has served. The main point that is brought out in regression studies is that when two variables are correlated, one variable may be used to predict the other.

Regression analysis studies are involved in dealing with predictions of continuous behavior variables with consideration of knowledge about the other independent