TY  - BOOK
AU  - Madan, Christopher R.
TI  - An Introduction to MATLAB for Behavioral Researchers
SN  - 1452255407
U1  - 150.28553 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - MATLAB
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Data Processing
KW  - Research Methodology
N1  - 1  The Basics
1.1 What Is MATLAB?
1.2 Before We Begin
1.3 Manually Entering Data
1.4 MATLAB Conventions
1.5 Operating on Variables
1.6 Simple Math With Variables
1.7 Working With Only the Data We Want
1.8 Calling It a Day
1.9 The End of the Beginning
Exercises & Function Review
2  Data, Meet MATLAB
2.1 Functions
2.2 Paths
2.3 A New Type of Variable: Strings
2.4 Navigating Directories
2.5 Press TAB to Complete
2.6 Opening Data Files
2.7 A New Type of Variable: Cell Array
2.8 Making a New Directory
2.9 Getting Data Out of MATLAB
Exercises & Function Review
3  Basic Analyses
3.1 Don't Be Afraid to Ask for Help!
3.2 Descriptive Statistics
3.3 Comparing Values
3.4 Working With Logical Operators
3-5 Isolating Specific Portions of Data
3.6 Simple Analyses Involving Text Data
3.7 Combining Functions
3.8 WhatlsNaN?
3.9 Unbalanced or Unexpected Parenthesis or Bracket
Exercises & Function Review
4 Making Figures
4.1 Plotting Fundamentals: Step by Step
4.2 Saving Your Figure
4.3 A Sampling of the Many Ways to Plot Your Results
4.4 Adding Some Style: Line Colors, Markers, and More
4.5 Multiple Graphs in the Same Figure
4.6 Legend—Wait for It— . . .
4.7 More Advanced Axis and Figure Customization
4.8 To Have More Lines or Too Many Lines?
4.9 Making Three-Dimensional Figures
Exercises & Function Review
5  Automating Your Analyses
5.1 Your First Script
5.2 Comments
5.3 Conditional Statements
5-4 Looping Through the Repetition
5.5 Initializing a New Matrix
5.6 Putting It Into Practice
5.7 Making Our Scripts Interactive
5.8 Building Functions
5.9 Toolboxes
Exercises & Function Review
6 Debug and Optimize
6.1 General Practices
6.2 Breaking Out of Unresponsive Code
6.3 Locating the Error
6.4 Common Errors: Typing Related
6.5 Common Errors: Value Related
6.6 Timing Your Code With Tic-Toc
6.7 Semicolons Are Your Friend
6.8 Profiling Your Code
6.9 A Fresh Pair of Eyes
Exercises & Function Review
7  Elementary Statistics
7.1 Confidence Intervals
7.2 One-Sample and Pairwise-Gomparison t tests
7.3 Independent-Samples t test
7.4 Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
7.5 Nonparametric Correlations
7.6 Additional Statistical Tests
7.7 Bootstrapping
7.8 Restructuring Data
7.9 Further Analyses
Exercises & Function Review
8  Putting It All Together
8.1 Another Look at Decision-Making Data
8.2 A Simple Mathematical Simulation
8.3 Correlations and Scatterplots
8.4 Visualizing Two-Dimensional Responses; Part I
8.5 Visualizing Two-Dimensional Responses: Part II
8.6 Counterbalancing Conditions for an Experiment
9  The Final Chapter
9.1 The Beginning of the End
9.2 Further Directions
9.3 Data Analysis Without MATLAB
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