Kent, Raymond A.,
Analysing quantitative data : variable-based and case-based approaches to non-experimental datasets / Raymond Kent. - xxii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index.
Part I. Quantitative data : structure, preparation and analysis approaches : 1. Data structure -- 2. Data preparation -- 3. Approaches to data analysis -- part II. Variable-based analyses : 4. Univariate analysis -- 5. Bivariate analysis -- 6. Multivariate analysis -- part III. Case-based analyses : 7. Set-theoretic methods and configurational data analysis -- 8. Cluster and discriminant analysis -- part IV. Comparing and communicating results : 9. Comparing and mixing methods -- 10. Evaluating hypotheses, explaining and communicating results.
"This innovative book provides a fresh take on quantitative data analysis within the social sciences. Using multidisciplinary non-experimental datasets it demonstrates that data analysis is really an active dialogue between ideas and evidence, between research objectives and data in a dataset." --
9781446273401 (hardcover) 1446273407 (hardcover) 9781446273418 (paperback) 1446273415 (paperback)
2014947234
GBB 508889 bnb
017019304 Uk
Quantitative research--Methodology.
Social sciences--School of Business and Education--Methodology.
Qualitative research.
Methodologie.
Quantitative Methode.
H62 / .K46 2015
H 62 .K46 2015
Analysing quantitative data : variable-based and case-based approaches to non-experimental datasets / Raymond Kent. - xxii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index.
Part I. Quantitative data : structure, preparation and analysis approaches : 1. Data structure -- 2. Data preparation -- 3. Approaches to data analysis -- part II. Variable-based analyses : 4. Univariate analysis -- 5. Bivariate analysis -- 6. Multivariate analysis -- part III. Case-based analyses : 7. Set-theoretic methods and configurational data analysis -- 8. Cluster and discriminant analysis -- part IV. Comparing and communicating results : 9. Comparing and mixing methods -- 10. Evaluating hypotheses, explaining and communicating results.
"This innovative book provides a fresh take on quantitative data analysis within the social sciences. Using multidisciplinary non-experimental datasets it demonstrates that data analysis is really an active dialogue between ideas and evidence, between research objectives and data in a dataset." --
9781446273401 (hardcover) 1446273407 (hardcover) 9781446273418 (paperback) 1446273415 (paperback)
2014947234
GBB 508889 bnb
017019304 Uk
Quantitative research--Methodology.
Social sciences--School of Business and Education--Methodology.
Qualitative research.
Methodologie.
Quantitative Methode.
H62 / .K46 2015
H 62 .K46 2015