Methodology category: 1297 books
by Ben Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Supported by a wealth of learning features, exercises, and visual elements as well as online video tutorials and interactive simulations, this book is the first student-focused introduction to Bayesian statistics.
Without sacrificing technical integrity for the sake of simplicity, the author...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large computational capacities are now available. Both make computer-based model building and simulation possible in social science, whose central aim is in particular an understanding...
by Dr. John P. Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
The world is saturated with data. We are regularly presented with data in words, tables, and graphics. Students from many academic fields are now expected to be educated about data in one form or another. Yet the typical sequence of courses—introductory statistics and research methods—does not...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences provides evaluators of research manuscripts and proposals in the social and behavioral sciences with the resources they need to read, understand, and assess quantitative work. 35 uniquely structured chapters cover both traditional...
Demystifying evaluation
Practical approaches for researchers and users
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Social research practitioners and others working in the public and voluntary sectors, in academia and consultancy are increasingly under pressure to provide policy-related evidence with limited resources and rising expectations. Demystifying evaluation is an accessible introductory guide setting the...
Responsible Research Practice
Revisiting Transformative Paradigm in Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
This book explores ways in which creative research practice can be explicitly and mindfully geared to make a difference to the quality of social and ecological existence. It offers a range of examples of how different research methods can be employed (and re-tuned) with this intention. The book suggests...
Understanding Human Development
Dialogues with Lifespan Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
K. Warner Schaie I am pleased to write a foreword for this interesting volume, particularly as over many years, I have had the privilege of interacting with the editors and a majority of the con tributors in various professional roles as a colleague, mentor, or research collaborator. The editors...
How To Finance Your Research Project
A Practical Guide to Costing Research Projects and Obtaining Funding
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Obtaining research funding can be a long, laborious and stressful process. This book helps ease this process by providing practical advice, useful tips and information about funding databases and funding directories. Covering a wide variety of funding sources such as government, industry and charity,...
Critical Thinking
Tools for Evaluating Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
*Critical Thinking *prepares students to thoughtfully interpret information and develop a sophisticated understanding of our increasingly complex and multi-mediated world. Peter M. Nardi’s approach helps students sharpen their critical thinking skills and improve their analytical reasoning, enabling...
Time-Integrative Geographic Information Systems
Management and Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The book deals with the integration of temporal information in Geographic Information Systems. The main purpose of an historical or time-integrative GIS is to reproduce spatio- temporal processes or sequents of events in the real world in the form of a model. The model thus making them accessible...
by Claes Wohlin, Per Runeson, Martin Höst
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Like other sciences and engineering disciplines, software engineering requires a cycle of model building, experimentation, and learning. Experiments are valuable tools for all software engineers who are involved in evaluating and choosing between different methods, techniques, languages and tools.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Chemometrics uses advanced mathematical and statistical algorithms to provide maximum chemical information by analyzing chemical data, and obtain knowledge of chemical systems. Chemometrics significantly extends the possibilities of chromatography and with the technological advances of the personal...
Believing in Accordance with the Evidence
New Essays on Evidentialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
This volume explores evidentialism, a major theory of epistemic justification. It contains more than 20 papers that examine its nuances, its challenges, as well as its future directions. Written by leading and up-and-coming epistemologists, the papers cover a wide array of topics related to evidentialism.
The...
Non-Representational Methodologies
Re-Envisioning Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Non-representational theory is one of the contemporary moment’s most influential theoretical perspectives within social and cultural theory. It is now widely considered to be the logical successor of postmodern theory, the logical development of post-structuralist thought, and the most notable intellectual...