Methodology category: 1297 books
Regression Models for Categorical, Count, and Related Variables
An Applied Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Social science and behavioral science students and researchers are often confronted with data that are categorical, count a phenomenon, or have been collected over time. Sociologists examining the likelihood of interracial marriage, political scientists studying voting behavior, criminologists counting...
by Rachel A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book targets the social and health science branches...
by Mike Metcalfe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book suggests that business research, in the collection, analysis, and communication of evidence, will benefit from explicit acceptance of research as argumentation. Argumentation is the process of compiling an argument through selection and organization of the relevant evidence.
Recently, business...
Research Design
Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design in relation to research questions leads to the elimination or diminution of threats to eventual research claims, by encouraging internal validity and...
Working Together
Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together...
Creative Teamwork
Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations. It is about the imagination, stimulation, and reflection that can come with international, interdisciplinary teams sharing the development, application, analysis,...
Change Research
A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Collaborating with community members adds a critical dimension to social work research, providing practitioners with intimate knowledge of a community's goals and needs while equipping community advocates with vital skills for social change. Sharing the inspiring story of one such partnership, Corey...
Evaluation Essentials, Second Edition
From A to Z
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Thoroughly revised and updated, this engaging text has given thousands of students and new evaluators the practical information and expert advice needed to conduct or use evaluations. In 26 concise sections, the book describes how to articulate answerable evaluation questions, collect and analyze...
by Adil E. Shamoo, David B. Resnik
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science, data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell research, illustrate the importance of ethics in science. Responsible Conduct of Research, now in a completely updated second...
Feeding the World
Agricultural Research in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The astounding success of agricultural research has enabled farmers to produce increasingly more—and more kinds—of food throughout the world. But with a projected 9 billion people to feed by 2050, veteran researcher Gale Buchanan fears that human confidence in this ample supply, especially in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Issues in bioethics often turn, at least in part, on the law and regulatory requirements. Consisting of chapters that address particular bioethics topics from the law’s perspective, this fascinating book includes:
an introduction to the American legal system
papers identifying the principal...
Neural Data Science
A Primer with MATLAB® and Python™
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A Primer with MATLAB® and Python™ present important information on the emergence of the use of Python, a more general purpose option to MATLAB, the preferred computation language for scientific computing and analysis in neuroscience.
This book addresses the snake in the room by providing...
by Clement Lamboi Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Environmental, economic, and social sustainability management is one of the most complex challenges facing both private and public sector organizations in recent times. This book is different from other accounting books in that unlike other texts on accounting, it addresses the needs of variety of...
Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability
Sharing Ideas and Learning Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity.