- 192 pages
- English
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Interpreting Quantitative Data
About this book
How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do?s? and `don?ts? of effective quantitative research?
This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social world; achieve effective measurement; understand the use of official statistics; use social surveys; understand probability and quantitative reasoning; interpret measurements; apply linear modelling; understand simulation and neural nets; and integrate quantitative and qualitative modelling in the research process.
Jargon-free and written with the needs of students in mind, the book will be required reading for students interested in using quantitative research methods.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Interpreting the Real and Describing the Complex: Why We Have to Measure
- 2 The Nature of Measurement: What We Measure and How We Measure
- 3 The State’s Measurements: The Construction and Use of Official Statistics
- 4 Measuring the Complex World: The Character of Social Surveys
- 5 Probability and Quantitative Reasoning
- 6 Interpreting Measurements: Exploring, Describing and Classifying Basic exploration and description
- 7 Linear Modelling: Clues as to Causes
- 8 Coping with Non-linearity and Emergence: Simulation and Neural Nets
- 9 Qualitative Modelling: Issues of Meaning and Cause
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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