Kent, Raymond A. <br/><br/>
Analysing quantitative data :   variable-based and case-based appro aches to non-experimental datasets / 
Raymond Kent. 
 - Los Angeles :   Sage,   2015. 
 - xxii, 349 p. :   ill. ;   25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-346) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Quantitative data : structure, preparation and analysis appr oaches : 1. Data structure -- 2. Data preparation -- 3. Approaches to d ata analysis -- part II. Variable-based analyses : 4. Univariate analys is -- 5. Bivariate analysis -- 6. Multivariate analysis -- part III. Ca se-based analyses : 7. Set-theoretic methods and configurational data a nalysis -- 8. Cluster and discriminant analysis -- part IV. Comparing a nd communicating results : 9. Comparing and mixing methods -- 10. Evalu ating hypotheses, explaining and communicating results. 
<br/><br/>  "This innovative book provides a fresh take on quantitative data ana lysis within the social sciences. Using multidisciplinary non-experimen tal datasets it demonstrates that data analysis is really an active dia logue between ideas and evidence, between research objectives and data in a dataset." -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781446273401 (hardcover) 9781446273418 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014-947234 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Quantitative research-- Methodology.<br/> Social sciences-- Research-- Methodology.<br/> Qualitative research.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300.7/21