variable-based and case-based approaches to non-experimental datasets Kent, Raymond A. creator author. text bibliography cau New Delhi SAGE 2015 2015 monographic eng

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xxii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm "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." -- 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. Raymond Kent. Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index. Quantitative research Methodology Social sciences Research Methodology Qualitative research Methodologie Quantitative Methode H62 .K4176 2015 302.072 REA 2015 9781446273401 (hardcover) 1446273407 (hardcover) 9781446273418 (paperback) 1446273415 (paperback) 2014947234 BTCTA 140730 20181210075411.0 eng