TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kent,Raymond A.
TI  - Analysing quantitative data: variable-based and case-based approaches to non-experimental datasets 
SN  - 9781446273401 (hardcover)
AV  - H62 .K4176 2015
U1  - 302.072 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Quantitative research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Qualitative research
KW  - Methodologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Quantitative Methode
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index; Part I. Quantitative data : structure, preparation and analysis approaches : 1. Data structure -- 2. Data preparation -- 3. Approaches to data analysis -- part II. Variable-based analyses : 4. Univariate analysis -- 5. Bivariate analysis -- 6. Multivariate analysis -- part III. Case-based analyses : 7. Set-theoretic methods and configurational data analysis -- 8. Cluster and discriminant analysis -- part IV. Comparing and communicating results : 9. Comparing and mixing methods -- 10. Evaluating hypotheses, explaining and communicating results
N2  - "This innovative book provides a fresh take on quantitative data analysis within the social sciences. Using multidisciplinary non-experimental datasets it demonstrates that data analysis is really an active dialogue between ideas and evidence, between research objectives and data in a dataset." --
ER  -