Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research

Stephen Gorard is Professor of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. He is the author of 'Quantitative Methods in Educational Research'.

• 1. Introduction - the role of numbers in research 2. Finding secondary data: the 'idle' researcher 3. Simple analysis: the index wars and other battles 4. Sampling: the basis of all research 5. Surveying the field: questionnaire design 6. Simple non-parametric statistics: minding your table manners 7. Research claims: modelling the social world 8. Experimental approaches: a return to the gold standard? 9. Elementary parametric statistics: what do they signify? 10. Progress via regression: introducing correlations 11. Combining approaches: a 'compleat' researcher Glossary of selected terms Useful addresses

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