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Bereavement, grief, loss

Why am I putting this here when it's obviously either too simple to need expansion...

Bowley’s seven-figure summary

One of three "seven-figure" or "seven-number" summaries: i.e. ways of describing a distribution of values...

Bifactor models

A subset of factor analytic models, not to be confused with 2-factor models. Details As with all...

Between group(s) comparison

What it says! Actually, when you see it, it what is really being done...

Bonferroni correction

This is the simplest way to "correct" for the multiple tests problem. Details Read the multiple tests...

Binomial distribution

This probably doesn't come up directly all that often in the therapy/MH literature but it...

Bootstrap methods

A computer intensive statistical method mainly used to obtain robust estimates of confidence intervals around...

Boxplot (or box plot)

Sometimes also called a "box and whisker plot". This is a excellent way to...

Barplot / bar plot

See Histograms and barplots.

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

Perhaps the most famous and successful therapy self-report instrument ever. Started with the paper...

Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

The BAI is a (Beck, A. T., Epstein, N., Brown, G., & Steer, R. A....

Bulimia Investigatory Test Edinburgh (BITE)

The BITE is a questionnaire which, as its name suggests, is designed to measure typical...

Between groups tests

The complement to paired, or within person tests. See Paired tests and Between group(s)...

Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ)

A 34 item self-report measure developed to measure the negative self-appraisal of body shape common...

Bootstrap, Bootstrapping

For our purposes these are modern ways of getting Confidence Intervals around any sample estimate...

Blinding

Blinding refers to concealing or masking group allocation in controlled trials. For example, participants are...

Bias

Bias is anything that that results in a conclusion or finding that is not the...