Research Methods and Statistics

Name: Research Methods and Statistics
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ISBN: 9780230249882

ISBN-10: 0230249884

ISBN-13: 9780230249882

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ian Walker

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Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of figures


Note from series editors


Preface



Research Methods



Introduction



The first three stages of designing a research project



Who will you test and what will this tell you? Understanding populations and samples



Major types of quantitative research



Qualitative research and questionnaires



Research ethics



Statistics



Using statistics to describe research findings



Displaying data with graphs and tables



Hypothesis testing, and the only two errors you can possibly make with statistics



Did you see what you expected to see? Understanding the chi-squared test



One of the most useful things you'll ever learn: the normal distribution



When is a number not a number? Understanding levels of measurement



How to tell whether two sets of numbers are different from each other



Looking at relationships - measures of correlation



Analysing and presenting qualitative data



Reports, and some thoughts



Writing research reports



A few short warnings about statistics



Statistics in the real world



Normal distribution table



Worked examples of tests for comparing two means: t-tests, the Mann-Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test



Calculating correlations


Glossary


Index


Reading guide