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Quantitative Research
16 of the Best Books and Articles on: Quantitative Research
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Qualitative-Quantitative Research Methodology: Exploring the Interactive Continuum
by Isadore Newman, Carolyn R. Benz. 224 pgs.
Rejecting the artificial dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative research strategies in the social and behavioral sciences, Isadore Newman and Carolyn R. Benz argue that the two approaches are neither mutually exclusive nor interchangeable; rather, the actual relationship between the two paradigms is one of isolated events on a continuum of scientific inquiry. Through graphic and narrative descriptions, Newman and Benz show research to be a holistic endeavor in the world of inquiry. To clarify their argument, they provide a diagram of the "qualitative-quantitative interactive continuum" showing that qualitative analysis with its feedback loops can easily modify the types of research questions asked in quantitative analysis research and that the quantitative analysis results and its feedback can change what will be asked qualitatively. In their model for research - an "interactive continuum" - Newman and Benz emphasize four major points: the research question dictates the selection of research methods; consistency between question and design can lead to a method of critiquing research studies in journals; the interactive continuum model is built around the place of theory; and the assurance of "validity" of research is central to all studies.
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When Marxists Do Research ("The Philosophics Reject the Research Tools of Contemporary Social Science" begins on p. 123)
by Pauline Marie Vaillancourt. 208 pgs.
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Quantitative Methods for Historians: A Guide to Research, Data, and Statistics
by Konrad H. Jarausch, Kenneth A. Hardy. 247 pgs.
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A Conceptual Introduction to Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives
by David W. Britt. 219 pgs.
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Research Methods in Applied Settings: An Integrated Approach to Design and Analysis (Chap. 17 "Adding Independent Variables-Complex between Groups Designs: Analysis and Interpretation")
by Jeffrey A. Gliner, George A. Morgan. 472 pgs.
The authors of this unique text found that while most students can "crunch" the numbers quite easily and accurately with a calculator or computer, many have trouble seeing the "big picture" or seeing how research questions and design influence data analysis. As a result, the authors developed a semantically consistent framework that integrates traditional research approaches (experimental, quasi-experimental, comparative) into three basic kinds of research questions (difference, associational, and descriptive), which, in turn, lead to three kinds or groups of statistics with the same names. This text: *helps students become good consumers of research by demonstrating how to analyze and evaluate research articles; *offers a number of summarizing diagrams and tables that clarify confusing or difficult to learn topics; *points out the value of qualitative research and how it should lead quantitative researchers to be more flexible; *divides all quantitative research questions into five logically consistent categories that help students select appropriate statistics and understand their cause and effect; and *classifies design into three major types: between groups, within subjects, and mixed groups and shows that, although these three types use the same general type of statistics (e.g., ANOVA), the specific statistics in between-groups design are different from those in within-subjects and mixed groups.
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Empirical Knowledge on World Politics: A Summary of Quantitative Research, 1970-1991
by Brian H. Gibbs, J. David Singer. 458 pgs.
This research guide provides a comprehensive summary of all quantitative research in the World Politics field published in scholarly journals between 1970 and 1991. Each such article is summarized in terms of the central query or hypotheses, the spatial-temporal domain, the measurement of the predictor and outcome variables, the data analysis, and the findings. Article summaries are arranged alphabetically by first author. This guide contains three extensive indexes. The first references articles according to the topic(s) covered; the second according to the states, dyads, and other entities used as units-of-analyses in the study; the third according to the authors of the research. Graduate students, scholars, and practitioners will find this book an invaluable overview of the quantitative research that has been conducted on World Politics over the past two decades.