The Psychometrics/Quantitative Methods Reading List
The faculty members of the Psychometrics/Quantitative Methods Program
at The University of Minnesota Department of Psychology have assembled the
following list of suggested readings
to help our graduate students develop into skilled methodologists.
The reading materials are “rated” as follows:
REQuired: An enduring classic in the field or will be
soon.
RECommended: These are interesting for their
treatment of specialized topics.
FYI: These are topics that you should know about (at
least know that they exist).
Journals
- Annual Review of Psychology REQ (methodology chapters).
- Psychological Methods REQ
- Multivariate Behavioral Research REQ
- Applied Psychological Measurement REQ
- Chance REC
- Psychometrika REC
- Sociological Methods and Research REC
- Psychological Bulletin FYI pre 1996
- Journal of Applied Psychology FYI
- The American Statistician FYI
General Statistical Theory
- Box, G.E.P. (1976). Science and statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 71, 791-799.REQ
- Cohen, J. (1990). Things I have learned (so far). American Psychologist, 45, 1304-1312. REQ
- Cohen, J. (1994). The earth is round (p < .05). American Psychologist, 49, 997-1003. REQ
- Cohen, J. (1992). A power primer. Psychological Bulletin 112 155-159. REQ
- Darlington, R. (1968). Multiple regression in psychological research and practice. Psychological Bulletin, 69, 161-182. REQ
- Guttman, L. (1977). What is not what in statistics. Statistician, 26, 81-107.REQ
- Hays, W.L. (1994). Statistics. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace. REQ or a text at a comparable level
- Meehl, P.E.(1978). Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald and the slow
progress soft psychology. Journal of
Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 806-834.REQ.
- Maxwell, S.E., & Delaney, H.D. (2000). Designing experiments and analyzing data.
Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum. REQ
- Cohen, J. (1968). Multiple regression as a general data-analytic system. Psychological
Bulletin, 70, 426-433 REC.
- Cohen, J. (1977). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. New
York: Academic Press REC
- Efron, B., & Tibshirani, R.J. (1998). An introduction to the bootstrap. New York:
Chapman & Hall. REC
- Efron, B.,& Gong, G. (1983). A leisurely look at the bootstrap the jackknife and
cross-validation. American Statistician, 37, 36-48. REC
- Draper, N.R.,& Smith, H. (1981). Applied regression analysis. New York:
JohnWiley.REC
- Hosmer, D.W., & Lemeshow, S. (1989). Applied logistic regression. New York: John
Wiley.REC
- Long, J.S. (1997). Regression models for categorical and limited dependent variables.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. REC.
- Siegel, S., & Castellan, N.J.,Jr. (1988). Nonparametric statistics for the
behavioral sciences. McGraw-Hill: New York.FYI
General Multivariate Books
- Lattin, J., Carroll, J. D., & Green, P. E. (2003).Analyzing multivariate data Pacific Grove, CA: Thomson: Brooks/Cole. REQ
- Carroll, J. D., Green, P. E., & Chaturvedi, A. (1997). Mathematical tools for
applied multivariate analysis. San Diego : Academic Press. REQ
- Bock, R. D. (1975).Multivariate statistical methods in behavioral research, N.Y.: McGraw Hill.REC
Specific Psychometric/Statistical Techniques
Categories Versus Continua/Profile Analysis
- Cronbach, L.J., & Gleser, G .C. (1953). Assessing similarity between
profiles. Psychological Bulletin, 50, 456-473.REQ
- Grayson, D. (1987). Can categorical and dimensional views of psychiatric illness be
distinguished? British Journal of Psychiatry, 151, 355-361. REC.
- Meehl, P. E. (1992). Factors and taxa, traits and types, differemce of degree and differences in kind. Journal of Personality, 60, 117-174. REQ
- Waller, N.G., & Meehl, P. E. (1998). Multivariate taxometric procedures:
Distinguishing types from continua. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications. REC.
Factor Analysis/Structural Equation Models
- Bollen, K.A.(1989). Structural equations with latent variables. New York: John
Wiley. REQ.
- Cliff,N.R. (1983). Some cautions concerning the
application of causal modeling methods. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 18,
155-126. REQ.
- One of the following books on factor analysis:
- Mulaik, S.A. (1971). The foundations of factor analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill REQ
- Gorsuch, R.L.(1983). Factor analysis. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. REQ.
- Alwin, D.F., & Hauser, R.M. (1975). The decomposition of effects in path analysis. American
Sociological Review, 40, 37-47. REC.
Item Response Theory
- Embretson,S.E., & Reise, S.P. (2000). Item response theory for psychologists.
Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum. REQ
- Hambleton, R. K., Swaminathan, H. & Rogers, H. J. (1991). Fundamentals of item
response theory.Newbury Park,Calif. : Sage Publications. REQ.
- Hambleton, R. K., Swaminathan, H. (1985). Item response theory: Principles and applications.
Boston, MA: Kluwer-Nijhoff Pub. REQ
- Chang, H.-H., & Ying, Z. (1996). A global information approach to computerized adaptive testing. Applied Psychological Measurement, 20, 213-229.REQ
- Chang, H.-H. (2004). Understanding computerized adaptive testing: From Robbins-Monro to Lord and beyond. In D. Kaplan (Ed.), The Sage handbook of quantitative methodology for the social sciences (pp. 117-133). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.REQ
The Analysis of Change
- Cronbach,L.J., & Furby, L. (1970). How should we measure "change" -- or
should we? Psychological Bulletin, 74, 68-80. REQ.
- Bryk, A.S.,& Raudenbush, S.W. (1992). Hierarchical linear models: Newbury Park: Sage. REQ.
- Muthen, B.O.,& Curran, P.J. (1997). General longitudinal modeling of individual
differences in experimental designs: A latent variable framework for analysis
and power estimation. Psychological Methods, 2, 371-402. REQ
- Willet, J.B.,& Sayer, A.G. (1994). Using covariance structures analysis to detect
correlates and predictors of individual change over time. Psychological
Bulletin, 116, 363-381.REQ
- Collins, L. M.,& Horn, J.L. (1991). Best methods for the analysis of change. Washington,
D.C.: American Psychological Association. REC
- Prochaska, J.O.,DiClemente, C.C., & Norcross, J.C. (1992). In search of how people change:
Applications to addictive behaviors. American Psychologist, 47, 1102-1114.
REC
Missing Data
- Schafer, J. L., & Graham, J. W. (2002). Missing data: Our view of the state of the art. Psychological Methods, 7, 147-177. REQ
- Graham, J.W.,Hofer, S.M., Donaldson, S.I., MacKinnon, D.P., & Schafer, J.L. (1997).
Analysis with missing data in prevention research. In K.J. Bryant, M. Windle,
& S.G. West (Eds.), The Science of Prevention: Methodological Advances From
Alcohol and Substance Abuse Research Washington, D.C.: American Psychological
Association. REC
Multilevel Modeling
- Kreft, I., & De Leeuw, J.D. (1998). Introducing multilevel modeling. London: Sage REC
Math Basics
- Hagle, T. (1995). Basic Math for Social Scientists:
Concepts (Sage University Papers Series. Quantitative Applications in the
Social Sciences, No-07-108) REQ
- Iversen, G. (1996). Calculus (Quantitative
Applications in the Social Science , Vol 110)REQ
- Searle, S.R. (1982). Matrix algebra useful for statistics.
New York:John Wiley REC
General Psychometrics
- Crocker, L. & Algina, J. (1986). Introduction to classical and modern test theory.
New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. REQ.
- Lord, F. M.,& Novick, M. R.(1968).Statistical theory of mental test scores. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. REQ.
- McDonald, R.P. (1999). Test theory: A unified treatment. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum
Associates. REQ.
- Cronbach, L.J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests.
Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302. REQ.
- Campbell, D.T., & Fiske, D. W.(1959).Convergent and discriminant validation by
the multitrait-multimethod matrix. Psychological Bulletin, 56, 81-105. REQ
- Grove, W. M.,& Meehl, P. E.(1996). Comparative efficiency of formal
(mechanical, algorithmic) and informal (subjective, impressionistic) prediction
procedures: The clinical/statistical controversy.
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2, 293-323. REQ
- Loevinger, J. (1957). Objective tests as instruments of psychological theory. Psychological Reports, 3, 635-694. REQ
- Gulliksen,H.(1950).Theory of mental tests.New York: John Wiley & Sons. REC.
- Linn, R. L.(1989).Educational measurement (3ed ed.). New York: Macmillian. FYI
- Cronbach, L.J.(1989).Construct validation after thirty years.
In R. L. Linn (Ed.), Intelligence: Measurement, theory, and public policy (pp.
147-171). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.REC
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Embretson, S.E.(1983).Construct validity:Construct representation versus nomothetic span. Psychological Bulletin, 93, 179-197. REC.
- Schmidt, F.
L., & Hunter, J. E.(1997). Measurement error in psychological research:
Lessons from 26 research scenarios.Psychological
Methods, 1, 199-223. REC
Meta-analysis and Research Synthesis
- Cooper, H., & Hedges, L.V. (Eds.) (1994). The handbook of research synthesis. New
York: Russell Sage Foundation. REC
- Cook, T.D.,
Cooper, H.M., Cordray, D.S., Hartman, H., Hedges, L.V., Lewis, T., Light, R.J.,
& Mosteller, F.M. (Eds.) (1992). Meta-analysis for explanation: A
casebook. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. REC