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Applications of Exponential Random Graph Modeling - COMING SOON!

Jenine K. Harris

(2013)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452270135

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Applied Correspondence Analysis

Sten-Erik Clausen

(1998)

This volume provides readers with a simple, non-technical introduction to correspondence analysis (CA), a technique for summarily describing the relationships among categorical variables in large tables. It begins with the history and logic of CA. The author shows readers ...

DOI: 10.4135/9781412983426

This volume provides readers with a simple, non-technical introduction to correspondence analysis (CA), a technique for summarily describing the relationships among categorical variables in large tables. It begins with the history and logic of CA. The author shows readers ...
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Applied Logistic Regression Analysis, Second Edition

Scott Menard

(2002)

The focus in Applied Logistic Regression Analysis, Second Edition, is again on logistic regression models for individual level data, but aggregate or grouped data are also considered. The book includes detailed discussions of goodness of ...

DOI: 10.4135/9781412983433

The focus in Applied Logistic Regression Analysis, Second Edition, is again on logistic regression models for individual level data, but aggregate or grouped data are also considered. The book includes detailed discussions of goodness of ...
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Applied Regression

Michael S. Lewis-Beck

(1980)

Applied regression allows social scientists who are not specialists in quantitative techniques to arrive at clear verbal explanations of their ...

DOI: 10.4135/9781412983440

Applied regression allows social scientists who are not specialists in quantitative techniques to arrive at clear verbal explanations of their ...
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Applied Research Design

Terry E. Hedrick, Leonard Bickman & Debra J. Rog

(1993)

To help researchers and students make the transition from the classroom and laboratory to research in the ‘real world,’ the authors reveal the pitfalls and suggest strategies to overcome problems in the design and planning of applied research. With a focus on how to refine research questions as r...

DOI: 10.4135/9781412983457

To help researchers and students make the transition from the classroom and laboratory to research in the ‘real world,’ the authors reveal the pitfalls and suggest strategies to overcome problems in the design and planning of applied research. With a focus on how to refine research questions as r...
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Applied Statistics with SPSS

Eelko Huizingh

(2007)

An all-in-one self-study guide to SPSS and do-it-yourself guide to statistics. Based around the needs of undergraduate students embarking on their own research project, and its self-help style is designed to boost the skills and confidence of those that will need to use SPSS in the course of thei...

DOI: 10.4135/9781446249390

Tags: Computer programmes , Statistical packages , Quantitative data analysis , Data analysis

An all-in-one self-study guide to SPSS and do-it-yourself guide to statistics. Based around the needs of undergraduate students embarking on their own research project, and its self-help style is designed to boost the skills and confidence of those that will need to use SPSS in the course of thei...
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Appreciative Inquiry

Jan Reed

(2007)

Pioneers in the area of appreciative inquiry (AI) have focused on it as an organisational development tool, but this book explores AI as a research framework. The author reflects on her experience of using AI as a research approach, and draws on writing in organisational development and research ...

DOI: 10.4135/9781412983464

Tags: Participatory action research , Interpretation , Ethnography , Participation

Pioneers in the area of appreciative inquiry (AI) have focused on it as an organisational development tool, but this book explores AI as a research framework. The author reflects on her experience of using AI as a research approach, and draws on writing in organisational development and research ...
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Archival Strategies and Techniques

Michael R. Hill

(1993)

Historical and biographical work is becoming a more common type of qualitative research done by social scientists and usually requires the extensive use of formal archives housed in universities, governments, museums and other institutions. This practical and concise book provides an introduction...

DOI: 10.4135/9781412983471

Historical and biographical work is becoming a more common type of qualitative research done by social scientists and usually requires the extensive use of formal archives housed in universities, governments, museums and other institutions. This practical and concise book provides an introduction...
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"Are Simple Gain Scores Obsolete?"

Applied Psychological Measurement (1996)

Over a quarter century ago, Cronbach & Furby (1970) and many other authors (e.g., Gulliksen, 1950; Lord & Novick, 1968) concluded that simple differences between pretest and posttest scores have questionable value in behavioral and social science research. Yet th...

Tags: Theory , Quantitative data analysis , Reliability

Over a quarter century ago, Cronbach & Furby (1970) and many other authors (e.g., Gulliksen, 1950; Lord & Novick, 1968) concluded that simple differences between pretest and posttest scores have questionable value in behavioral and social science research. Yet th...
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The Art of Funding and Implementing Ideas: A Guide to Proposal Development and Project Management

Arnold R. Shore & John M. Carfora

(2011)

This resource provides a step-by-step approach to turning a research idea into a proposal worthy of funding, demystifying the process as a result. The authors present a proven approach to the development of research ideas alongside a systematic treatment of proposals section-by-section and projec...

DOI: 10.4135/9781452226484

Tags: Research management

This resource provides a step-by-step approach to turning a research idea into a proposal worthy of funding, demystifying the process as a result. The authors present a proven approach to the development of research ideas alongside a systematic treatment of proposals section-by-section and projec...
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"The art(fulness) of open-ended interviewing: some considerations on analysing interviews"

Qualitative Research (2001)

ABSTRACT Considerable analytic attention has focused on interviewees’ talk as ‘accounts’, or ‘versions’, rather than as direct reports of attitudes or perceptions. However, despite recognition of the ‘co-construction of accounts’, little analytic attention has been given ...

ABSTRACT Considerable analytic attention has focused on interviewees’ talk as ‘accounts’, or ‘versions’, rather than as direct reports of attitudes or perceptions. However, despite recognition of the ‘co-construction of accounts’, little analytic attention has been given ...
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Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues

J. Gary Knowles & Ardra L. Cole

(2008)

Represents an unfolding and expanding orientation to qualitative social science research that draws inspiration, concepts, processes, and representational forms from the arts.

DOI: 10.4135/9781452226545

Tags: Visual representations , Artistic inquiry , Visual research , Visual analysis , Writing , Performance , Dance , Experience , Text , Drama , Art

Represents an unfolding and expanding orientation to qualitative social science research that draws inspiration, concepts, processes, and representational forms from the arts.
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Assessing Inequality

Lingxin Hao & Daniel Q. Naiman

(2010)

This text reviews a set of widely used summary inequality measures, and the lesser known relative distribution method provides the basic rational...

DOI: 10.4135/9781412993890

This text reviews a set of widely used summary inequality measures, and the lesser known relative distribution method provides the basic rational...
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Assessing the Quality of Survey Data Recently Published

Jörg Blasius & Victor Thiessen

(2012)

This book introduces the latest methods for assessing the quality and validity of survey data by providing new ways of interpreting variation and measuring error. By practically and accessibly demonstrating these techniques, especially those derived from Multiple Correspondence Analys...

DOI: 10.4135/9781446251874

Tags: Integrity , Scaling , Screening , Comparison , Quantitative data collection , Quality criteria , Survey

This book introduces the latest methods for assessing the quality and validity of survey data by providing new ways of interpreting variation and measuring error. By practically and accessibly demonstrating these techniques, especially those derived from Multiple Correspondence Analys...
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The Association Graph and the Multigraph for Loglinear Models

Harry J. Khamis

(2011)

Will help students, particularly those studying the analysis of categorical data, to develop the ability to evaluate and unravel even the most complex loglinear models without heavy calculations or statistical software.

DOI: 10.4135/9781452226521

Tags: Visualization , Contingency tables , Data visualisation , Log-linear analysis , Association models , Quantitative data analysis , Graph theory , Modelling , Association , Crosstabulation , Statistical modelling

Will help students, particularly those studying the analysis of categorical data, to develop the ability to evaluate and unravel even the most complex loglinear models without heavy calculations or statistical software.
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Association Models

Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong

(2010)

Although association models have been widely utilized by social stratification researchers, especially in the study of social mobility and assortative mating such techniques have yet to be widely disseminated to other social science disciplines. This is partly because most of the impo...

DOI: 10.4135/9781412993920

Although association models have been widely utilized by social stratification researchers, especially in the study of social mobility and assortative mating such techniques have yet to be widely disseminated to other social science disciplines. This is partly because most of the impo...
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"Autoethnography in Vocational Psychology: Wearing Your Class on Your Sleeve" Recently Published

Journal of Career Development (2010)

This article addresses reflective practice in research and practice and takes the issue of consciousness of social class in vocational psychology as a working example. It is argued that the discipline's appreciation of social class can be advanced through application...

Tags: Autoethnography , Class , Reflexivity

This article addresses reflective practice in research and practice and takes the issue of consciousness of social class in vocational psychology as a working example. It is argued that the discipline's appreciation of social class can be advanced through application...
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The A-Z of Social Research

Robert L. Miller & John D. Brewer

(2003)

Have you ever wondered what a concise, comprehensive book providing critical guidance to the whole expanse of social science research methods and issues might look like? The A-Z is a collection of 94 entries ranging from qualitative research techniques to statistical testing and the practicalitie...

DOI: 10.4135/9780857020024

Have you ever wondered what a concise, comprehensive book providing critical guidance to the whole expanse of social science research methods and issues might look like? The A-Z is a collection of 94 entries ranging from qualitative research techniques to statistical testing and the practicalitie...

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