Preface

This book was prepared for the ESC_PS 8850 Quantitative Foundations in Educational Research course I teach at the University of Missouri (MU). It covers class notes as well as R syntax for statistical analysis. It is a working document and I may update periodically.

To cite this book, use the following:

Wang, Z. (2021). Quantitative Foundations in Educational Research. Retrievable from https://zewang.netlify.app/books/quant-foundations/_book

Contents

The contents of the book roughly follow the order of lecture notes used in class.

  • Chapter 1. Introduction to R and RStudio
  • Chapter 2. Review of Basic Statistics
  • Chapter 3. Correlation
  • Chapter 4. Simple Linear Regression
  • Chapter 5. Multile Regression Analysis
  • Chapter 6. Binary Logistic Regression
  • Chapter 7. Analysis of Variance
  • Chapter 8. Analysis of Covariance
  • Chapter 9. Repeated Measures ANOVA and Mixed Designs
  • Chapter 10. Power Analysis