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The Principles of Experimental Design and Analysis in Relation to Theory Building

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Handbook of Multivariate Experimental Psychology

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The frame of reference on which we now focus is that of general psychological research, within which we propose to define the varieties of experimental design. It is necessary to get into such a perspective that multivariate experimental design which we have so far briefly historically introduced but with which later chapters are extensively concerned.

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Cattell, R.B. (1988). The Principles of Experimental Design and Analysis in Relation to Theory Building. In: Nesselroade, J.R., Cattell, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0893-5_2

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