Interpreting quantitative data /
'Interpreting Quantitative Data' 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 and apply linear modelling.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE,
2002.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781848608665 1848608667 9781849209311 1849209316 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Interpreting the Real and Describing the Complex: Why We Have to Measure
- The Nature of Measurement: What We Measure and How We Measure
- The State's Measurements: The Construction and Use of Official Statistics
- Measuring the Complex World: The Character of Social Surveys
- Probability and Quantitative Reasoning
- Interpreting Measurements: Exploring, Describing and Classifying
- Linear Modelling: Clues as to Causes
- Coping with Non-linearity and Emergence: Simulation and Neural Nets
- Qualitative Modelling: Issues of Meaning and Cause.