A Research Primer for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

✍ Scribed by Miriam Schapiro Grosof and Hyman Sardy (Auth.)

Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Academic Press
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Leaves: 428
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Page xiii
Acknowledgments, Page xv
Introduction, Pages 1-8
1 - Preliminaries, Pages 9-23
2 - Choosing the Research Problem and Stating the Problem-Question, Pages 25-49
3 - The Background of the Problem: Review of the Literature, Pages 51-62
4 - Definitions and Major Research Hypotheses, Pages 63-86
5 - Evaluating Method and Design, Pages 87-102
6 - Research Types, Pages 103-131
7 - Procedure: Measurement, Instrumentation, and Data Collection, Pages 133-168
8 - The Study Population: Sampling, Pages 169-189
9 - Role of Computer in Research, Pages 191-206
10 - Techniques for Analysis of Data, Pages 207-221
11 - Probabilistic Methods: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics, Pages 223-270
12 - Probabilistic Methods: Multivariate Statistics I: Basic Strategies, Pages 271-307
13 - Probabilistic Methods: Multivariate Statistics II: Clustering and Classification Techniques, Pages 309-337
14 - Probabilistic Methods: Multivariate Statistics III: Techniques Free of Linear Assumptions, Pages 339-355
15 - Deterministic Problem Analysis Techniques, Pages 357-378
16 - Endgame, Pages 379-403
References, Pages 405-424
Index, Pages 425-433

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