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How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do's' and `don'ts' of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social world; achieve effective measurement; understand the use of official statistics; use social surveys; understand probability and quantitative reasoning; interpret measurements; apply linear modelling; understand simulation and neural nets; and integrate quantitative and qualitative modelling in the research process. Jargon-free and written with the needs of students in mind, the book will be required reading for students interested in using quantitative research methods.
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Interpreting Quantitative Data, David Byrne
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
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- Titel
- Interpreting Quantitative Data
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- David Byrne
- Verlag
- SAGE
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 196
- ISBN10
- 076196262X
- ISBN13
- 9780761962625
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften
- Beschreibung
- How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do's' and `don'ts' of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social world; achieve effective measurement; understand the use of official statistics; use social surveys; understand probability and quantitative reasoning; interpret measurements; apply linear modelling; understand simulation and neural nets; and integrate quantitative and qualitative modelling in the research process. Jargon-free and written with the needs of students in mind, the book will be required reading for students interested in using quantitative research methods.