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  1. Analysis of Ordinal Data

    Analysis of Ordinal Data

    David K. Hildebrand, James D. Laing & Howard Rosenthal

    (1977)

    Ordinal data can be rank ordered but not assumed to have equal distances between categories. Using support by judges for civil rights measures and bussing as the primary example, this paper indicates how such data can best be analyzed. ...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983310

  2. Journal Article

    "Analysis of terrorist social networks with fractal views"

    Journal of Information Science (2009)

    Visualization plays an important role in generating new insights in social network analysis [1]. Freeman [2] claims that visual images of social networks provide investigators with new insights about network structures and help them to communicate those insights to oth...

    Tags: Visualization , Social networks , Social network analysis , Network analysis , Nodes , Algorithms , Networks

  3. Journal Article

    "Analysis of Thin Online Interview Data: Toward a Sequential Hierarchical Language-based Approach" Recently Published

    American Journal of Evaluation (2007)

    Despite the best of intentions, qualitative researchers can be faced, in some circumstances, with having to make meaning from thin, or less than optimal, data. Using a real study as context, the authors describe the ways that they made sense of their thin data on tea...

    Tags: Data analysis , Language , Transcript , Online interviews

  4. Analysis of Variance, Second Edition

    Analysis of Variance, Second Edition

    Gudmund R. Iversen & Helmut Norpoth

    (1987)

    The second edition of this book provides a conceptual understanding of analysis of variance. It outlines methods for analysing variance that are used to study the effect of one or more nominal variables on a dependent, interval level ...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983327

  5. Analysis of Variance via Confidence Intervals

    Analysis of Variance via Confidence Intervals

    Kevin D. Bird

    (2004)

    Analysis of variance (ANOVA) constitutes the main set of statistical methods used by students and researchers to analyse data from experiments. This expertly written textbook adopts a pioneering approach to ANOVA with an emphasis on confidence intervals rather than tests of significance. Key f...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781849208598

    Tags: Confidence intervals , Quantitative data analysis , Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

  6. Journal Article

    "Analytic Autoethnography"

    Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (2006)

    Autoethnography has recently become a popular form of qualitative research. The current discourse on this genre of research refers almost exclusively to “evocative autoethnography” that draws upon postmodern sensibilities and whose advocates distance themselves from realist and analyt...
  7. Analytic Mapping and Geographic Databases

    Analytic Mapping and Geographic Databases

    G. David Garson & Robert S. Biggs

    (1992)

    34380506 Analytic Mapping and Geographic Databases jmcmahon 2013-01-17T20:07:38.905Z 2013-04-01T17:13:58.944Z 2013-04-01T17:13:58.942Z SRM SAGE-TEI-Book analytic-mapping-and-geographic-databases.xml sage_books.sch sage.rnc analytic-mapping-and-geographic-d...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983334

    Tags: Visual research , Database , Visual analysis , Autocorrelation , Census research , Modelling , Census data , Analysis

  8. Journal Article

    "Analytic Ordering for Theoretical Purposes"

    Qualitative Inquiry (1996)

    This article discusses why and how to make explicit the linkages between interaction and conditions affecting both the interaction and its consequences. The discussion aims at (a) extending the range of conditions/consequences considered by researchers; (b) forcing se...
  9. Analyzing Complex Survey Data, Second

    Analyzing Complex Survey Data, Second

    Eun Sul Lee & Ronald N. Forthofer

    (2006)

    This book examines ways to analyze complex surveys, and focuses on the problems of weights and design effects. This new edition incorporates recent practice of analyzing complex survey data, introduces the new analytic approach for categorical data analysis (logistic regression), revi...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983341

    Tags: Sampling , Quantitative data analysis , Regression , Data analysis , Analysis , Survey , Survey data analysis

  10. Analyzing Costs, Procedures, Processes, and Outcomes in Human Services

    Analyzing Costs, Procedures, Processes, and Outcomes in Human Services

    Brian T. Yates

    (1996)

    The techniques for performing cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in mental health and other human services are introduced in this volume. After describing a model for assessment and improvement-oriented analysis of human service systems usin...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983358

    Tags: Evaluation research , Evaluation

  11. Analyzing Decision Making

    Analyzing Decision Making

    Jordan J. Louviere

    (1988)

    This volume introduces the theory, method, and applications of one type of conjoint analysis technique. These techniques are used to study individual judgement and decision processes. Based upon Information Integration Theory, ...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983365

  12. Analyzing Documentary Accounts

    Analyzing Documentary Accounts

    Randy Hodson

    (1999)

    Although ethnographic evidence has accumulated in fields ranging from organizational studies to sociology, these studies have not been fully exploited except as sources of descriptive data. Analyzing Documentary Accounts provides ...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983372

  13. Analyzing Narrative Reality

    Analyzing Narrative Reality

    Jaber F. Gubrium & James A. Holstein

    (2009)

    Provides researchers, consultants, managers, and organizational development specialists validated and reliable ways to measure how employees view their work and their organization. Whether preparing questionnaires or interviews for an employee survey, organizational assessment, disser...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781452234854

  14. Analyzing Panel Data

    Analyzing Panel Data

    Gregory B. Markus

    (1979)

    An introduction to a variety of techniques that may be used in the analysis of data from a panel study -- information obtained from a large number of entities at two or more points in time. The focus of this volume is on analysis rather ...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983389

  15. Analyzing Qualitative Data

    Analyzing Qualitative Data

    Graham R. Gibbs

    (2007)

    Outlining how to select the most appropriate tool for analyzing data, Analysing Qualitative Data also provides the reader with an awareness of the various challenges that are unique to interpreting the conceptual and subjective data generated in qualitative research.

    DOI: 10.4135/9781849208574

    Tags: Coding , Data analysis , Analysis , Qualitative data analysis , Qualitative research

  16. Analyzing Quantitative Data

    Analyzing Quantitative Data

    Norman Blaikie

    (2003)

    What basic knowledge and skills do novice researchers in social science require? How can students be helped to over-come ‘symbol phobia’ or ‘figure blindness’? This generous and constantly insightful book is designed for social researchers who need to know what procedures to use under...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781849208604

  17. Analyzing Repeated Surveys

    Analyzing Repeated Surveys

    Glenn Firebaugh

    (1997)

    Repeated surveys — a technique for asking the same questions to different samples of people — allows researchers the opportunity to analyze changes in society as a whole. This book begins with a discussion of the classic issue of how to ...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983396

  18. Analyzing Social and Political Change

    Analyzing Social and Political Change

    Angela Dale & Richard B. Davies

    (1994)

    Researchers across the social sciences often encounter the need to analyze and understand change over time. When confronted with this need, the question arises as to which methodological technique or method is best suited to a given research study. Analyzing Social and Political Chang...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781849208611

  19. Analyzing Visual Data

    Analyzing Visual Data

    Michael S. Ball & Gregory W. H. Smith

    (1992)

    This volume provides a basic framework for using visual data - namely still photographs - as a tool for social analysis. The authors determine the importance of theoretical assumptions in analyzing these data and provide advice on how to use photographs in cognitive, symbolist and structuralist r...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983402

  20. ANOVA

    ANOVA

    Ellen R. Girden

    (1992)

    Focusing on situations in which analysis of variance (ANOVA) involving the repeated measurement of separate groups of individuals is needed, Girden reveals the advantages, disadvantages, and counterbalancing issues of repeated measures ...

    DOI: 10.4135/9781412983419

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