Autocorrelation
To some extent it's what it says: how much something correlates with itself but what...
Abstracteeism
A neologism created by Branca Sa Pires and leapt upon by me in one of...
Attenuation (by unreliability of measurement)
This is the very basic reality that if you have unreliable measures of things, and...
Average absolute deviation (AAD)
This is generally used to describe a family of measures of dispersion, i.e. of the...
Anderson-Darling test
A good test of distribution fit. (That's a graphic from my Rblog post about...
Alternative (alternate) hypothesis
The logical alternative to the null hypothesis in NHST (Null Hypothesis Significance Testing). At...
Anonymisation
This sounds obvious doesn't it and it also seems obvious that clients, and research participants,...
Authenticity Scale (AS)
A twelve item self-report therapy change scale created to reflect Carl Rogers' ideas of authenticity...
Audit, Clinical Audit
In financial terms an Audit refers to a formal inspection of a system or set...
Aggregation
Aggregation in OM refers to the bringing together of data for the purposes of statistical...