"Preface This book has its genesis in my PhD research at the London School of Economics. I started the degree with questions about the 2008/09 financial crisis and planned to spend most of my time researching about capital adequacy requirements. But I quickly realized much of my…
A fresh approach to bridging research design with statistical analysis While good social science requires both research design and statistical analysis, most books treat these two areas separately.Understanding and Applying Research Designintroduces an accessible approach to int…
This introductory guide provides a fresh approach to integrating design and statistics in a hands-on fashion that incorporates the power of SPSS (R) software to solve real-world problems. It explores the areas of design and causation--allowing readers to pose, test, and interpre…
This introductory guide provides a fresh approach to integrating design and statistics in a hands-on fashion that incorporates the power of SPSS (R) software to solve real-world problems. It explores the areas of design and causation--allowing readers to pose, test, and interpre…
"Research synthesis is the practice of systematically distilling and integrating data from many studies in order to draw more reliable conclusions about a given research issue. When the first edition of The handbook of research synthesis and Meta-analysis was published in 1994, …
Research synthesis is the practice of systematically distilling and integrating data from many studies in order to draw more reliable conclusions about a given research issue. In the third edition, editors Harris Cooper, Larry Hedges, and Jeff Valentine present updated versions …
Provides comprehensive instruction in the skills necessary to conduct research syntheses and represents the premier text on research synthesis.