02148nam a22003617a 4500 20181210075411.0 140730t20152015caua b 001 0 eng d 2014947234 bnb 017019304 Uk 9781446273401 (hardcover) 1446273407 (hardcover) 9781446273418 (paperback) 1446273415 (paperback) (OCoLC)ocn898167466 BTCTA eng BTCTA rda BDX CDX UKMGB CHVBK SINTU YDXCP MUU OCLCO OCLCQ P4A INU BD-DhBPA H62 .K4176 2015 302.072 REA 2015 Kent, Raymond A., author. 121363 Analysing quantitative data : variable-based and case-based approaches to non-experimental datasets / Raymond Kent. New Delhi: SAGE, 2015 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." -- Rasal Quantitative research Methodology. 121364 Social sciences Research Methodology. 121365 Qualitative research. 121366 Methodologie. gnd 9956 Quantitative Methode. gnd 121367 ddc BK 43172 43172 0 ddc 0 0 BPATC BPATC GRR 2018-05-16 2 302.072 REA 2015 99260 2022-02-08 00:00:00 2020-10-18 2018-05-16 BK Rasal