How long does it take to read Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences?
Jacob Cohen
Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences by Jacob Cohen takes about 8 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1969. 474 pages, about 130,350 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a nontechnical guide to power analysis in research planning that provides users of applied statistics with the tools they need for more effective analysis. The second edition includes: a chapter covering power analysis in set correlation and multivariate methods; a chapter considering effect size, psychometric reliability, and the efficacy of "qualifying" dependent variables and; expanded power and sample size tables for multiple regression/correlation.
Subjects: Probabilities, Statistical methods, Statistical power analysis, Social sciences, Multivariate analysis, Psychometrics
