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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: complete reference on experiment design
Message-ID: <5345@eos.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 19:57:06 GMT
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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I was asked by quite a few people for a compelte reference:

%A Donald T. Campbell
%A Julian C. Stanley
%T Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research
%I Rand-McNally
%C Chicago
%D 1963

I recommend this book for several reasons over larger more elaborate
books on experiment design:
1) It's about the size of Kernighan and Plauger's Elements of Programming
Style (about 1/3 of an inch thick).
2) It's cheap (like K&P), mine was $3.00.  Anyone can blow this amount
of money if you don't like it.
3) It's easy to read, fairly simple logic without lots of numbers of
statistics unlike other books.  It takes the tack: "Where is my
work invalid?"  What can invalidate my work?
4) It uses a simple notation to convey the above.
%) It's been around quite some time.

Another gross generalization from

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