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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... observation of trifles . ' ( The Boscombe Valley Mystery ) Sherlock Holmes said that he did not guess . He relied on observations and he had a method for analysing those observations . ' Seeing ' was not enough for Holmes . Accurate ...
... observations ( x ) . Each observation deviates from the mean by a certain amount ( x ; - M ) . Now one possible measure of spread would be to add up all possible devi- ations . However , some observations will lie below the mean , and ...
... observations ( X1 , X ; ) . They might be two people paired or matched in terms of anxiety scores or the observations may be paired because one observation has been taken in the morning , the other in the afternoon . We can find 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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