Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods: An Investigative Approach - Mark Balnaves; Peter Caputi (UK Sage Publications, 2001)
Order at All Points -- Counting and Accounting -- Starting the Inquiry -- 'But What Happened Then?' -- Defining the Inquiry -- 'Then How Do You Know?' -- Methods of Inquiry -- 'It Is a Capital Mistake to Theorize before One Has Data!' -- 'Data! Data! Data!' -- Analyzing Data from the Inquiry -- Finding Answers from the Inquiry -- 'Elementary, My Dear Watson!' -- Summarizing and Presenting Results -- 'Quite So!'
Keywords: Social Sciences (3GdYdhe GdGLJeGYjIs; Social sciences -- Statistical methods; Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology; General