Sorting Data: Collection and Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

✍ Scribed by A . P M Coxon

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

If you need hints on how to collect, describe, compare and analyze data, you will find them in this handy guide. The author addresses specification elaboration, and sampling of the "domain" or what is to be sorted. There is also help on setting the criterion, the pre-test, administration, and recording of results. The author gives special consideration to problems of categorization illustrated with a real research example.

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