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41. Handbook of Ethics in Quantitative Methodology

    Edited by A. T. Panter, Sonya K. Sterba

    Series: Multivariate Applications Series

    This comprehensive Handbook is the first to provide a practical, interdisciplinary review of ethical issues as they relate to quantitative methodology including how to present evidence for reliability and validity, what comprises an adequate tested population, and what constitutes scientific...

    Published January 13th 2011 by Routledge Academic
42. Randomized Response and Indirect Questioning Techniques in Surveys

    By Arijit Chaudhuri

    Series: Statistics: A Series of Textbooks and Monographs

    For surveys involving sensitive questions, randomized response techniques (RRTs) and other indirect questions are helpful in obtaining survey responses while maintaining the privacy of the respondents. Written by one of the leading experts in the world on RR, Randomized Response and Indirect...

    Published December 15th 2010 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
43. Measures of Interobserver Agreement and Reliability, Second Edition

    By Mohamed M. Shoukri

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

    Measures of Interobserver Agreement and Reliability, Second Edition covers important issues related to the design and analysis of reliability and agreement studies. It examines factors affecting the degree of measurement errors in reliability generalization studies and characteristics influencing...

    Published December 13th 2010 by CRC Press
44. Categorical Data Analysis for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

    By Razia Azen, Cindy M. Walker

    Featuring a practical approach with numerous examples, this book focuses on helping the reader develop a conceptual, rather than technical, understanding of categorical methods, making it a much more accessible text than others on the market. The authors cover common categorical analyses and...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge Academic
45. Cross-Cultural Analysis

    Methods and Applications

    Edited by Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt, Jaak Billiet

    Series: European Association of Methodology Series

    Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research, this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data. Techniques are demonstrated through the use of applications that employ cross national data...

    Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge Academic
46. Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using Real Data

    Edited by Stephen J. Guastello, Robert A.M. Gregson

    A compilation of research methods and reflecting the expertise of the major contributors to NDS psychology, this book examines the techniques that have proven to be most useful in the behavioral sciences. This book is designed to develop skill and expertise in framing hypotheses dynamically and in...

    Published November 16th 2010 by CRC Press
47. Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata, Fourth Edition

    By William Gould, Jeffrey Pitblado, Brian Poi

    Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata, Fourth Edition is written for researchers in all disciplines who need to compute maximum likelihood estimators that are not available as prepackaged routines. Readers are presumed to be familiar with Stata, but no special programming skills are assumed...

    Published October 26th 2010 by Stata Press
48. Handbook of Educational Data Mining

    Edited by Cristobal Romero, Sebastian Ventura, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Ryan S.J.d. Baker

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series

    Handbook of Educational Data Mining (EDM) provides a thorough overview of the current state of knowledge in this area. The first part of the book includes nine surveys and tutorials on the principal data mining techniques that have been applied in education. The second part presents a set of 25...

    Published October 24th 2010 by CRC Press
49. A Handbook of Process Tracing Methods for Decision Research

    A Critical Review and User’s Guide

    Edited by Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Anton Kuehberger, Rob Ranyard

    Series: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Series

    This handbook provides a critical review and user’s guide to conducting and reporting process tracing studies of decision making. Each chapter covers a specific method that is presented and reviewed by authors who are experts in the method’s application to decision research. The book ...

    Published October 24th 2010 by Psychology Press
50. Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

    Feminist Reflections

    Edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill

    Series: Transformations

    Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less...

    Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge