Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods: An Investigative ApproachIntroduction to Quantitative Research Methods is a student-friendly introduction to quantitative research methods and basic statistics. It uses a detective theme throughout the text and in multimedia courseware to show how quantitative methods have been used to solve real-life problems. The book focuses on principles and techniques that are appropriate to introductory level courses in media, psychology and sociology. Examples and illustrations are drawn from historical and contemporary research in the social sciences. The multimedia courseware provides tutorial work on sampling, basic statistics, and techniques for seeking information from databases and other sources. The statistics modules can be used as either part of a detective games or directly in teaching and learning. Brief video lessons in SPSS, using real datasets, are also a feature of the CD-ROM. |
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... SPSS and Excel to Describe Data 138 Working with SPSS 138 Working with Excel 140 Summary 142 Main Points 143 Review Exercises 144 References 145 6 Finding Answers from the Inquiry : ' Elementary , my dear Watson ! ' 147 Looking at ...
... SPSS format . SPSS is one of the most com- monly used statistical packages in the social sciences . We will use Version 9.0 of SPSS to show how histograms , stem and leaf displays and boxplots are obtained from SPSS . The Statistical ...
... SPSS AND EXCEL TO DESCRIBE DATA Working with SPSS The Explore option in SPSS allows the researcher to construct histograms , stem and leaf displays and boxplots for a set of values . This option , how- ever , can also be used to ...
Contents
But what happened then? | 10 |
1 Impact of television on Western Samoan evening activities | 20 |
2 Time and research design | 26 |
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