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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... referred to as column heads . The final type of heading that Sternberg identified was a spanner head . Spanner heads cover the entire body of a table . Some of these heading types are illustrated in the example in Table 5.4 , from Ho ...
... referred to as population parameters . Samples are drawn from populations . Often we do not know the values of population parameters . We can obtain summary measures for a sample to say something about the population parameters . The ...
... referred to as distribution free or non - parametric . We will now consider a test for two independent samples . This test uses the ranks of values rather than the actual scores . Therefore , it is usually referred to as a rank test ...
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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