OM book glossary

This is the glossary, over 300 entries and climbing, for the book “Outcome measures and evaluation in counselling and psychotherapy” written by myself and Jo-anne Carlyle and available now from SAGE. Some glossary entries link to more detailed expansions of the topic in my Rblog and, at last, an increasing number now link with interactive online (“shiny”) apps.

You can see the alphabetical list of entries below which is a good place to browse, or you can use this search box.

Beware: the way the search orders the matches is to my mind bizarre so scroll down if what you typed isn’t first on the list, you may find something with exactly the title that is exactly the phrase you typed in to find is hidden down the list of suggestions.

If what you want is not there and you think it should be, contact me and tell me and I will put it on the (long!) list of entries to be added!

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Sobel's test

Very geeky stuff this. Sobel's test is a parametric null hypothesis test of the significance…

Survival analysis

This is going to be a small introduction to a big and important topic. …

Spearman-Brown formula

Also known as the Spearman-Brown "prediction" or even "correction" formula and apparently there's an argument…

Slope (in linear regression)

What it says! The gradient of a linear regression. See the entry Regression and…

Scoring

Well it's what it says isn't it? It's about how you score multi-item measures…

Schwartz Outcome Scale-10 (SOS-10)

The SOS-10 is a brief self-report scale of 10 items that measures psychological health and…

Standardising/normalising

These are ways of transforming scores on some measure one effect is to remove the…

Square root

A square root of a number is the number which multiplied by itself results in…

Smallest identical subset

This has become an important idea in relation to confidentiality, anonymity and pseudonymisation of data. Details The…

Stochastic

This is a little one but partly to cover my love of words like this….

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Page last updated 19.v.24 to add the new BetterDocs “encyclopedia” listing of entries. Author CE, page and all glossary contents are copyright to me. That may change to a Creative Commons licence later when I am happier with the content.