Daniël Lakens
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Daniel Lakens is an Associate Professor in the Human-Technology interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His areas of expertise include meta-science, research methods and applied statistics. Daniel’s main lines of empirical research focus on conceptual thought, similarity, and meaning. He also focuses on how to design and interpret studies, applied (meta)-statistics, and reward structures in science.
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2014 Reprint of Original 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science presented a striking new picture of the logical character of scientific discovery--a picture which does full justice to the liberating effect of the Einste...
Daniël Lakens
2022-07-03T08:32:48.000Z
This long awaited successor of the original Cook/Campbell Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book covers four major topics in field experimentation:...
Daniël Lakens
2022-04-09T06:32:59.000Z
One of Ian Hacking's earliest publications, this book showcases his early ideas on the central concepts and questions surrounding statistical reasoning. He explores the basic principles of statistical reasoning and tests them, both at a philosophical level and in terms of their practical consequences for statisticians. Presented in a fresh twenty-f...
Daniël Lakens
2021-12-22T10:31:54.000Z
Statistical Inference as Severe Testing
How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars
Mounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. This book pulls back the cover on disagreements between experts charged with restoring integrity to science. It denies two pervasive views of the role of probability in inference: to assign degrees of belief, and to contr...
Daniël Lakens
2021-10-21T11:53:37.000Z
Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981) was one of the major figures in the development of statistics. Constance Reid, the noted biographer of Hilbert and Courant, describes his role in the development of modern statistics. This book will appeal to the professional statistician as well as the layman who wishes to learn something about a subject that permeates alm...
Daniël Lakens
2021-09-14T16:55:13.000Z
The role of science in policymaking has gained unprecedented stature in the United States, raising questions about the place of science and scientific expertise in the democratic process. Some scientists have been given considerable epistemic authority in shaping policy on issues of great moral and cultural significance, and the politicizing of the...
Daniël Lakens
2021-06-17T19:09:33.000Z
All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. Traditional textbooks on research methods tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways of constructing research questions. In this text, Alves...
Daniël Lakens
2021-04-04T08:11:47.000Z
The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campu...
Daniël Lakens
2021-03-22T12:12:26.000Z
Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipi...
Daniël Lakens
2021-03-22T12:10:18.000Z
Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data
A Model Comparison Perspective, Third Edition
Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data: A Model Comparison Perspective (3rd edition) offers an integrative conceptual framework for understanding experimental design and data analysis. Maxwell, Delaney, and Kelley first apply fundamental principles to simple experimental designs followed by an application of the same principles to more complicate...
Daniël Lakens
2021-03-04T15:01:16.000Z
What If There Were No Significance Tests? by Lisa L. Harlow
What Is This Thing Called Science? by Alan F. Chalmers
Social Science Methodology by John Gerring
Introduction to Meta-Analysis by Michael Borenstein
Understanding Psychology as a Science by Zoltan Dienes
Uncertainty by David Lindley
Theory Building by Robert Dubin