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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... natural phenomena must be massively sampled before an argument about their properties can be mounted , so , in some ... nature , it also has unique orderly properties . That is : in coming to analyse human cultures , one must take into ...
... nature of societies in different countries ) . Hoftstede's work is also a good example of the process of operationalization - going from constructs to description of those con- structs to operational definition of those constructs ...
... nature's ideal ( see Hankins , 1968 ) . But it is not clear that Quetelet's research on biology can simply be trans- lated to sociology and psychology . To what extent can the normal dis- tribution be described as a model for the ...
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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