Interpreting quantitative data
2002 | 192 pages | sage publications ad flyer recommend to libraryrecommend to do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world?
Refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research.
It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social world; achieve effective measurement; understand the use of official statistics; use social surveys; understand probability and quantitative reasoning; interpret measurements; apply linear modelling; understand simulation and neural nets; and integrate quantitative and qualitative modelling in the research -free and written with the needs of students in mind, the book will be required reading for students interested in using quantitative research reting the real and describing the we have to nature of we measure and how we state's construction and use of official ing the complex character of social ility and quantitative reting ing, describing and with non-linearity and tion and neural ative of meaning and interesting read and useful for improving skills in quantitative science, univ.
Very interesting book for those who want to specialise in qualitative data of human and health science, swansea is a good book on interpreting, rather than simply creating, statistics.
It raises awareness of the difficulties in interpreting data when, for example, variables have been deleted or, at a more advanced level, structural equation modeling has been used.
This book should convince both camps that numbers can indeed tell us useful things about the world, but that without a solid interpretation they are fairly is probably too much detail here for my introductory course in quantitative research, but particularly the first six chapters contain much material that is useful for this level.
