Kent, Raymond <br/><br/>
Analysing quantitative data :  variable-based and case-based approaches to non-experimental datasets 
Raymond Kent 
 - Los Angeles :  SAGE,  c2015. 
 - xxii, 349 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Part 1: Quantitative data: structure, preparation and analysis approaches Chapter 1: Data structure Chapter 2: Data preparation Chapter 3: Approaches to data analysis Part 2: Variable-based analyses Chapter 4: Univariate analysis Chapter 5: Bivariate analysis Chapter 6: Multivariate analysis Part 3: Case-based analyses Chapter 7: Set-theoretic methods and configurational data analysis Chapter 8: Cluster and discriminant analysis Part 4: Comparing and communicating results Chapter 9: Comparing and mixing methods Chapter 10: Evaluating hypotheses, explaining and communicating results 
<br/><br/> In covering both traditional and newer approaches, and presenting them alongside each other, and by consistently referring to two data sets throughout, this book provides students with a brand-new way of understanding methods and a tool with which they can think about their own research. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781446273401 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Qualitative research--Methodology<br/>Social sciences--Research--Methodology<br/>Quantitative research