Optimizing theories and experiments

Preface. Nature, theory, and experimentation. An anatomy for theory. The correspondence of theory to experimentation. The correspondence of experimentation to theory. Changing personal theory. True experiments and quasi-experiments. The reality of the BASS. Selecting the experiment. Data quality: the fineness of resolution. Integrity of data and parameter estimators. Choosing among statistics. Optimizing for potency in decision. From experiment to personal theory. Flow chart for experimentation. Systematic theory advancement. Cause-effect relations. Glossary. Reference. Subject index.