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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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
Dec 22, 2021
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
Oct 21, 2021
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
Apr 04, 2021
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
Mar 22, 2021
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
Mar 22, 2021
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
Mar 04, 2021
Uncertainty
Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.—Werner HeisenbergThat God would choose to play dice with the world is something I cannot believe.—Albert EinsteinNothing exists until it is measured.—Neils BohrThe remarkable story of a startling scientific idea that ignited a ba...
Daniël Lakens
Dec 21, 2020
This book provides a clear and thorough introduction to meta-analysis, the process of synthesizing data from a series of separate studies. Meta-analysis has become a critically important tool in fields as diverse as medicine, pharmacology, epidemiology, education, psychology, business, and ecology. Introduction to Meta-Analysis Outlines the role of...
Daniël Lakens
Dec 16, 2020
Social Science Methodology
A Unified Framework (Strategies for Social Inquiry)
John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology and sociology. This new edition has been extensively developed with the introduction of new material ...
Daniël Lakens
Mar 09, 2020
Daniël Lakens
Feb 24, 2020
Since its first publication in 1976, Alan Chalmers's highly regarded and widely read work--translated into eighteen languages--has become a classic introduction to the scientific method, known for its accessibility to beginners and its value as a resource for advanced students and scholars.In addition to overall improvements and updates inspired by...
Daniël Lakens
Jan 26, 2020Understanding Psychology as a Science by Zoltan Dienes
What If There Were No Significance Tests? by Lisa L. Harlow
Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills, Second Edition by James Jaccard