Quantitative research methods : (Record no. 19153)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781543148138
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Transcribing agency JTL
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Classification number H62
Item number .H37 2017
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Personal name Harkiolakis, Nicholas
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Title Quantitative research methods :
Remainder of title from theory to publication /
Statement of responsibility, etc Nicholas Harkiolakis
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc USA :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2017.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 248 p. :
Other physical details colored illustration ;
Dimensions 26 cm.
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General note Attempting to describe quantitative research methods through one volume of material is quite a challenging endeavor and it should be noted here that this book is by no means attempting to exhaustively present everything under the Sun on the subject. Interested readers will need to expand on what is presented here by searching the extant literature on what exists and what best suits their research needs. Having said that, the book does cover the great majority of quantitative methods found in social sciences research. The motivation for developing this book came from years of delivering quantitative methods courses for graduate programs in Europe and the USA. Through exposure to such programs it became apparent that while most students had some exposure, to statistics mainly, at the time they entered graduate studies most of their understanding and familiarity with quantitative techniques was forgotten or vaguely remembered. In many cases, what remained was the impression of how much they “hated” the subject. Overcoming this negative predisposition required a re-introduction of basic concepts and a fast-track approach to higher and more advanced methods of analysis. These realities guided the development of this book and so the assumption is made that the reader doesn’t know anything about quantitative research and about research in general. All concepts presented in the book are defined and introduced. Also, alternative and overlapping expressions and keywords used in quantitative research are presented so the reader can identify them in their readings of academic research. Whether this “zero-to-hero” approach succeeded is left for the reader to judge. Additional effort was made to include examples that are easily replicated in spreadsheets like Excel so the users can manually repeat them at their convenience. Regarding the use of software, commands for executing the various methods for SPSS are given in footnotes to avoid diverting from the core narrative of the text. The interested reader can easily retrieve a plethora of material from the Internet with step-by-step instructions for most of the analysis techniques discussed here and for the most popular statistical software packages. The book’s website at www.harkiolakis.com/books/quan provides additional material for executing the methods discussed here with SPSS, as well as all book images in higher resolution and links to other sources online. For instructors who are interested in using the book as a textbook, data sets and exercises on the methods included in the book are available upon request.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Research skills
General subdivision Learning and teaching
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantitative Research
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
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Classification part H 62
Item part .H37 2017
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    Library of Congress Classification     JTL Research Collection Judith Thomas Library Judith Thomas Library Judith Thomas Library Research Section 08/12/2017 Bought by JTL 40.42 AUA22098 10 3 H 62 .H37 2017 AUA22098 01/12/2023 30/11/2023 40.42 18/01/2018 Research Collection