Covering a number of disciplines, including linguistics, literary criticism, computer science, and statistics, this book presents a distinctive approach to the quantitative analysis of large volumes of narrative texts. The approach is based on a rigorous linguistic theory of nar…
Quantitative methodology is a highly specialized field. This handbook is intended to introduce applied statisticians, empirical researchers & graduate students to the broad array of state-of-the-art quantitative methodologies in the social sciences.
Quantitative methodology is a highly specialized field. This handbook is intended to introduce applied statisticians, empirical researchers & graduate students to the broad array of state-of-the-art quantitative methodologies in the social sciences.
The SAGE handbook of measurement
by Walford, Geoffrey, Viswanathan, Madhu, Tucker, Eric
The author delves into the too-often dismissed problems of interpreting quantitative data and then presenting them in the context of a coherent story about one's research. Unlike many books on statistics, this is a remarkably engaging read, filled with fascinating real-life (and…
Numerical ecology
by Legendre, Pierre, Legendre, Louis
fromDevelopments in environmental modelling
"More than a half-century has passed since Cronbach's distinction between the correlational and experimental approaches in psychology. Yet measurement today is not much better integrated with psychological theory than it was in the late 1950s, and many argue that the traditional…