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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... deviations before summing them . The variance is computed by taking the sum of squared deviations and dividing this sum by n - 1. The variance can be interpreted as an average squared deviation . We will use the symbol s2 to represent ...
... deviation is the square root of 10 which is 3.16 . We have already noted that the standard deviation is not a resistant meas- ure of spread . If the distribution is skewed , the standard deviation will not be a good measure of spread ...
... deviation some notation Mean Absolute Deviation ( MAD ) standard deviation variance Relationships statistical estimation correlation causation ⚫ scatterplots ⚫ linear relationships 247 THE STATISTICAL INQUIRER.
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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