For more than 40 years, SAGE has been one of the leading international publishers of works on quantitative research methods in the social sciences. This new collection provides readers with a representative sample of the best articles in quantitative methods that have appeared in SAGE journals as chosen by W. Paul Vogt, editor of other successful major reference collections such as Selecting Research Methods (2008) and Data Collection (2010).

The volumes and articles are organized by theme rather than by discipline. Although there are some discipline-specific methods, most often quantitative research methods cut across disciplinary boundaries.

Is Optimal Matching Suboptimal?

Is Optimal Matching Suboptimal?MatissaHollisterhttp://smr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/2/23531 ppSAGE Publications, Inc.
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SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research MethodsSage benchmarks in social research methods10.1177/0049124109346164

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In the late 1980s, Andrew Abbott introduced a technique known as optimal matching to the social sciences. Optimal matching (OM) is a method borrowed from biology that can be used to create a measure of similarity (or more often dissimilarity) between ...

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