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Moore, John C., Jr. – 1980
This paper was written to help local level advocates in the human services understand and use statistical data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Because of budget cuts, difficult times are ahead for human services delivery. Advocates need to strengthen their technical skills. In the first section of the paper, two new programs of published data…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Guidelines, Human Services, Reliability
Peer reviewedDobbins, D. Alan – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1987
Since research conclusions derived from inappropriate statistical methodologies can lack accuracy, the article describes a technique appropriate to the heterogeneity of special needs groups in which subjects are assigned to fairly homogeneous subgroups. The technique is related to research in reading with this population. (DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Reading Research, Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis
